| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. |
| Dante Alighieri | Less shame a greater fault would palliate. |
| Gaelic Proverb | Common sense hides shame. |
| John Lyly | Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. |
| Louis Armstrong | I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you! |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. |
| Michel Eyquem De Montaign | Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. |
| Sydney Smith | The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. |
| Titus Livy | As soon as she begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. |
| Titus Livy | The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. |
| Willard Gaylen | Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential. |
| 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 opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. |
| George Bernard Shaw | The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. |
| Homer | If yet not lost to all the sense of shame. |
| Jonathan Swift | I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. |
| John Dryden | Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. |
| Ovidius Naso | I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. |
| Ovidius Naso | Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails. |
| Robert Burton | A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. |
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