Shame Quotes - Page 27

• At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fall, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

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• My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Play, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

  Robert Reich

  Two, Stories, Journalism

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Wisdom, Learning

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• We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Justice, Honor

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Agamemnon, CXII, 1922.

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• A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Men, May

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

  Hermann Hesse

  Failure, Men, Common

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Deeds, Mark

  William Shakespeare (1836). “Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young persons: with notes from the best commentators. [6 plays”

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• O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brother, Grief, Names

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.348

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• Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Feet, Vices, Saint

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  William Hazlitt

  Gratitude, Business, Corporations

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• There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Smell, Ghost Stories

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.11

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• A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

  Juvenal

  Hate

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• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

  Juvenal

  Men, Eagles, Lust

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• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
  When once it is within thee; but before
  Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,
  Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.
  It is most just to throw that on the ground,
  Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, Lists, Drink

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.4

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• I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Self

  William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

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• But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

  William Cowper

  Running, Reading, Shining

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.277

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• It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

  Joseph Hall

  Ears, Tongue, Pardon

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Practical works”, p.281

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• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Misery, Architect

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• If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Names, Patriotism, France

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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• Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

  Hesiod

  Toil, Source, Idleness

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• 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

  Men, Literature, Poverty

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• Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Feelings, Modesty, Authority

  "Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,

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• Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Sorrow, World

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

  Sidney Lanier

  Tree, Mind, Olives

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.141, University of Georgia Press

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