Shame Quotes

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Ted Allen

Money, Great, Food

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.
Julie Walters

Love, Another, Film

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Jacob Bronowski

Science, Nothing, Human

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.
Dan Savage

Problems, Less, Talking

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
Beth Ditto

Poor, Once, Bitter

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
Freeman Dyson

Great, Human, Him

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Jane Pauley

Enough, Burden, Secrecy

I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.
Sinead O'Connor

Person, Feelings, Different

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
Michelle Malkin

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Paul Klee

Beauty, Beautiful, Woman

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
David Sedaris

Hate, Live, Moving

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Jock Sturges

Person, Last, Desire

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
Lionel Blue

Thought, Christian, Far

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.
Ayelet Waldman

Truth, Children, Everything

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.
Ayelet Waldman

Bad, Makes, Behavior

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
Damon Wayans

Yourself, Stop, Nobody

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
Phil Collins

Bit, Bigger, Disappear

Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.
Sherri Shepherd

Education, Try, Kids

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

After, Off, Once

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Woman, Her, Once

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
Tenzing Norgay

Live, Second, Everest

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Sydney Smith

Good, Ready, Virtue

At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.
Renee Fleming

Time, Saying, Career

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine

Eyes, Less, Name

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.
Andy Serkis

God, Real, Thinking

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.
Carol Vorderman

Family, Great, Happy

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
Terry Eagleton

God, Strong, Weakest

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
Matthew Lesko

Country, Support, Libraries

We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
Nate Ruess

Music, Rock, Away

I don't have any shame.
Conrad Black

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