269 Quotations with Shame.
- 61. Van Wyck Brooks: A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The inst ...

- 62. John Abbott: A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: "By ...

- 63. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

- 64. Sydney Smith: Avoid shame but do not seek glory -- nothing so expensive as glory.

- 65. Paul Klee: Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, ...

- 66. Bernard Mandeville: Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue. It is ...

- 67. Benjamin Franklin: Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

- 68. Isaac Watts: Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of on ...

- 69. Solomon Schechter: By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself ...

- 70. Pliny the Elder: Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of ...

- 71. Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receiv ...

- 72. Thomas De Quincey: Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate ...

- 73. Jean Genet: Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is tru ...

- 74. Mark Twain: Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

- 75. Samuel Johnson: Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; ...

- 76. Jean de La Fontaine: Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can ...

- 77. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to s ...

- 78. William Cowper: Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

- 79. Robert Half: Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

- 80. Author Unknown: He who is ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

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