A Quote by Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Ben Jonson

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Devil Shame Tell

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Ben Jonson
English - Poet
June 11, 1572 - August 6, 1637

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Jonathan Swift

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Francois Rabelais

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

William Shakespeare

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

John Milton

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.

Brene Brown

Say the truth and shame the devil.

Hugh Latimer

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

Mira Grant

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

Bob Marley

Shame has its place. Shame is what you do to a kid to stop them running on the road. And then you take the shame away, and immediately, they're back in the fold. You should never soak anybody in shame. It's the prolonged existence of shame that then flips out into destructive rage. We can't exist in that. It's like treacle.

Hannah Gadsby

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

Thomas Watson

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

James A. Garfield

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

James A. Garfield

The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

Hugo Chavez

And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.