It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old

Shamefully, Mexico isn’t a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that, because if you have something to tell, you will find a way to do it. You might get frustrated doing it but hey, that’s the country we live in. I want the chance to live and experience the country that I come from. I keep struggling and fighting against these very seductive offers that require that I live somewhere else. It is a shame that it has to be like that. But you are young. If you don’t have a family then there’s no excuse. Try, at least.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Shame has a poor memory.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an ‘I’ without shame.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Shame is a soul-eating emotion.

People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,’ said Aslan. ‘And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Is it not a Shame–is it not a Shame for him
So long in this Clay suburb to abide!

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

I believe that the most inexpensive, and perhaps the best medicine in the world is words. Kind words, positive words, and words that help people who feel ashamed of an invisible illness to overcome their shame and feel free.

My one regret is that I didn’t win a trophy with Tottenham, despite us being a strong team who played good, attractive football.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.