Top 354 Shameful Quotes & Sayings

To admit that you're shooting for the stars - that you're allowed to do that, that it's not shameful - that to me is very vulnerable.

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

Losing 7-1 at home is a shameful thing.

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

I just feel like estrogen is bad hormones, and seen as shameful.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

The more we as a society make women's sex lives seem like a secret, the more hostile that becomes. Because when you get into that cycle of thinking, no matter what you're doing, you feel shameful about it, because there's no way to talk about it. I think that through talking about it and sharing stories you realize the things you may have felt shameful about are totally normal and totally OK. Everyone's normal in their own way. You can only come to that realization if you're having these conversations, and learning what normal is for other people.

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

The crimes committed against the people of West Papua are some of the most shameful of the past years. The Western powers have much to answer for, and at the very least should use their ample means to bring about the withdrawal of the occupying Indonesian army and termination of the shameful exploitation of resources and destruction of the environment and the lives and societies of the people of West Papua, who have suffered far too much.

It is better for a youth to earn living selling pakodas instead of being unemployed. Making pakodas is not shameful; what is shameful is comparing such a person with a beggar.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

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

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.

Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.

There is nothing shameful about being efficient.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country's history.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.