Quotes with shame

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  • Boyle Roche There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Beth Ditto There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bob Dole Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • A. C. Swinburne To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Bryan Brown We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Conrad What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Hybels When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • John Lyly Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • William Shakespeare While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Edmund Burke Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Brene Brown You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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