Shame Quotes

I am not a saint. I have done wrong, and I’m not proud of it, but I’m not ashamed of talking about it.

Tell truth and shame the devil. (Henry IV)

When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. (Proverbs 11:2)

He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit. (Romeo and Juliet)

Honor and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his fall. (Ecclesiastes 5:13)

What, must I hold a candle to my shames? (The Merchant of Venice)

Fool me once – shame on you. Fool me twice – shame on me.

Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me Such an immodest raiment. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

He who puts a friend to public shame is as guilty as a murderer.

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.