Shame Quotes

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.
John Leonard

Pain, Mind, Moving

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.
Henry Lawson

Children, Single, Matter

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
Zoe Lister-Jones

Kids, Concert, Eight

Doubt is the brother of shame.
Erik Erikson

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

Away, Stuff, Commercial

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Luigi Pirandello

Women, Alone, Enough

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

Great, Read, Deal

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
Mark Millar

Writing, America, Captain

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.
Michael Cunningham

Great, End, Book

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.
Jim Parsons

Time, Find, Read

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

Away, Sense, Takes

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.
Steven Adler

Real, Together, Working

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.
Steven Adler

Music, Great, Stupid

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner.
Niall Horan

Home, Mind, After

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
John Gielgud

Yourself, Forget, Acting

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
Dee Dee Ramone

Great, Put, Said

We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.
Jennifer Saunders

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.
Len Goodman

Life, Work, Great

It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.
Scott Wolf

Gay, Said, Appreciate

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
Kevin Kline

Job, Hell, Guilt

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.
Glenn Hubbard

Positive, Crisis, Done

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
Jim Cooper

Before, Voting, Far

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.
David Edwards

Women, Sad, Big

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.
David Edwards

Rock, Play, Same

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
George Crook

True, Past, Him

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
Aimee Mann

Life, Feeling, Brain

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.
Louis Kronenberger

Time, Real, Off

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

Sense, Market, Homosexual

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.
Susanna Hoffs

Music, True, Speak

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
Alexandra Kosteniuk

Play, Face, Chess

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