Salman Rushdie Quotes About Shame

Quotes about: Shame

• We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Sacrifice, Men

• Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Axes, Roots

• O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

  Salman Rushdie

  Shame, Humiliating

• Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

  Salman Rushdie

  Long, Furniture, Shame

  "Tell your crush how you feel - it may be relevant information" by Nell Frizzell, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2015.

• You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wall, House, Bed

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