False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Charles Simmons

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

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

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

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
Tori Amos

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

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman

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

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.
Roma Downey

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
Richard Attenborough

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
Michael C. Hall

I gave up shame a long time ago.
John Lithgow

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
Brooke Shields

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
Kyan Douglas

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.
Gerry Beckley

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