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
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
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. […]
