(864 quotes found)
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
Howard Zinn
“The only shame is to have none”
Blaise Pascal
“Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.”
Dorothy Parker
“Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.”
John Wesley
“Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.”
Virgil
“The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame”
Mason Cooley
“Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer”
Honore de Balzac
“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
