"Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old." —Unknwon on Shame
"A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better." —Robert Burton on Shame
"Less shame a greater fault would palliate. " —Dante on Shame
"Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life." —John Dryden on Shame
"The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is--to die." —Oliver Goldsmith on Shame
"If yet not lost to all the sense of shame." —Homer on Shame
"As soon as she begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. " —Titus Livy on Shame
"The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. " —Titus Livy on Shame
"I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled.
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"Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails." —Ovid on Shame
"I count him lost, who is lost to shame. " —Plautus on Shame
"O shame, where is thy blush?" —William Shakespeare on Shame
"Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes." —William Shakespeare on Shame
"He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned Sole monarch of the universal earth." —William Shakespeare on Shame
"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins." —George Bernard Shaw on Shame
"The most curious offspring of shame is shyness." —Sydney Smith on Shame
"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it." —Marcus Tullius Cicero on Shame
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." —George Bernard Shaw on Shame
"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think." —Michel Eyquem on Shame
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn." —Benjamin Franklin on Shame
"Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential." —Willard Gaylen on Shame
"Common sense hides shame." —Gaelic Proverb on Shame
"Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame." —John Lyly on Shame
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is." —Benjamin Franklin on Shame
"Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit." —Seneca on Shame
"I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!" —Louis Armstrong on Shame
"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed." —Jonathan Swift on Shame
"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me." —Chinese Proverb on Shame
