Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Blake Edwards

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
Kyra Sedgwick

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

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John Dryden

Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?
Willis Goldbeck

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
Martha Beck

Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.
Robbie Coltrane

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Pierre Corneille

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
John Owen

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.
J. Irwin Miller

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis

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

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
Cat Stevens

The only shame is to have none.
Blaise Pascal