I am not a saint. I have done wrong, and I’m not proud of it, but I’m not ashamed of talking about it.
Shame Quotes
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a sense of shame.
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
The only shame is to have none.
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity – these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
A random synaptic firing also elicited: “What are you doing there?” he said to the tippler, whom he had found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottles and also a collection of full bottles. “I am drinking,” said the tippler, with a lugubrious air. “Why are you drinking?” demanded the little prince. […]
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt we owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat, drink, and sleep Down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six day to Mammon, one to Cant.
