Shame Quotes

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.