Quotes on Shame

It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

In the name of peace_x000D_ _x000D_ They waged the wars_x000D_ _x000D_ ain't they got no shame

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night." "How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.