The only shame is to have none.
Shame Quotes
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity – these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
A random synaptic firing also elicited: “What are you doing there?” he said to the tippler, whom he had found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottles and also a collection of full bottles. “I am drinking,” said the tippler, with a lugubrious air. “Why are you drinking?” demanded the little prince. […]
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt we owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat, drink, and sleep Down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six day to Mammon, one to Cant.
O shame, where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame, When the compulsive ardor gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, and reason panders will. (Hamlet)
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides. (King Lear)
Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceivings on one another.
