O shame, where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame, When the compulsive ardor gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, and reason panders will. (Hamlet)
Shame Quotes
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides. (King Lear)
Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceivings on one another.
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame, No touch of bashfulness? (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Tell truth and shame the devil. (Henry IV)
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. (Proverbs 11:2)
He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit. (Romeo and Juliet)
Honor and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his fall. (Ecclesiastes 5:13)
