shame Quotes

As a country, we can't teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that's - that's a disgrace.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!