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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Howard Zinn
The British grew ashamed of the empire and tried to wipe it from the national memory. Jeremy Paxman, Empire V: Doing Good, BBC 2012
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away. Walter Kirn
Here dead lie we because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young. A E Housman
My charity is outrage; life, my shame. William Shakespeare, Richard III I iii 275, Queen Margaret to Richard Gloucester et al
What, must I hold a candle to my shames? William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice II vi 41, Jessica to Lorenzo
O shame! Where is thy blush? William Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv 83, Hamlet to Mother
The shame itself doth speak for instant remedy. William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I iv 240-241, Goneril
For at my death I murder shameful scorn;
My shame so dead, mine honour is new born. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece 1189-1190
But they whose guilt within their bosoms lie
Imagine every eye beholds their shame. ibid. 1342-1343
You don’t have to be ashamed of me any more. Romanzo Criminale s1e12 starring Francesco Montanari & Vinicio Marchioni & Alessandro Roja & Marco Bocci & Daniela Virgilio & Andrea Sartoretti et al, Lebanese shouting in rain prior to assassination, Sky Cinema 1 2008
The first thing I can remember: shame. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 starring Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor & Burl Ives & Judith Anderson & Jack Carson & Madeleine Sherwood & Larry Gates & Vaughn Taylor, director Richard Brooks, Big Daddy to Brick
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. Ralph Ellison
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin
The girl’s life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman’s original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. ibid.
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
When individuals are shamed so remorselessly and unforgivingly that they become outcasts, or even begin to think of themselves as outcasts it becomes more rewarding to associate with others who are perceived in some limited or total way as also at odds with mainstream standards. John Braithwaite, Crime, Shame and Reintegration
Only the deep sense of some deathless shame. John Webster, The White Devil
Shame is a soul swallowing emotion. C G Jung
The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in general phrases. Even without memory, the life is bound into one by a zone of dependence in growth and decay; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past. With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame. George Eliot, Middlemarch
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. John Grisham, The Testament
Shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us. Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. Salman Rushdie, Shame
Only man can blush.
No other creature knows of shame.
Why have we wandered so far away
From simple honesty? Edwin Leibfreed, The Song of the Soul
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. Blake Edwards, Victor/Victoria
There’s shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
Shame need not crouch
In such an earth as ours
Stand – stand erect;
The universe is yours. Emily Dickinson, Not With a Club, The Heart is Broken
Soap won’t wash away your shame. Depeche Mode, Shame
So saying, he [Hector] led the way, and the other followed with him, a godlike man. And the Argives did great Telamonian Aias urge on, saying: ‘My friends, be men, and take ye shame in your hearts, and have shame each of the other in the fierce conflict. Of men that have shame more are saved than are slain; but from them that flee springeth neither glory nor any avail.’ Homer, The Ilyad XV
Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame. Philippians 3:19