What, must I hold a candle to my shames? (The Merchant of Venice)
Shame Quotes
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.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The people who are dragging their shame into a confessional box, with their feet hanging out from under a curtain like wiggling worms, have courage to face their own shame. It is the cowards who are running off to pillboxes, and to a thousand and one other escapes, who have not the courage to face […]
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
