shame quotes

If you still have to ask†shame on you.

- Louis known as Satchmo Armstrong
Habitual response when asked what is jazz? Quoted in M  Jones Salute to Satchmo (1970).

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 3:19.

   Shame of the versifying tribe! Your history whither are you spinning? Can you do nothing but describe?

-Thomas Gray
  A Long Story, l.17^20.

It is no shame for a man to die fighting for his country. Honorius of Autun

-Homer   8c
c.700  BC  Iliad, bk.15, l.496 (translated by Martin Hammond).

Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame? He's all a knave or half a slave Who slights his country thus: But a true man, like you, man, Will fill your glass with us.

-John Kells Ingram
  The Spirit of the Nation,'The Memory of the Dead'.

By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, This, only this, provokes the snarling muse.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  London: a Poem, l.158^61.

To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor spriteliness, but contempt of shame, and indifference to truth are absolutely necessary.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Of journalistic reporting. In The Idler, no.31,11 Nov.

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamedwiththenobleshame, istheverygermand first upgrowth of all virtue.

- Charles Kingsley
  Health and Education.

La honte est la plus violente de toutes les passions. Shame is the most violent of all the passions.

- Marie-Madeleine Pioche de LaVergne La Fayette
  La Princesse de Cle' v es.

   But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

- Aemilia Lanyer
Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's  Apology in Defense of Women'.

My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.

-John Milton
Samson  Agonistes, l.597^8.

Sir, there isno Levitical degreesbetween nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

- Sir Boyle Roche
c.1800  Debate on theAct of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, Irish Houseof Commons, quotedin SirJonahBarrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore they have no shame. They have the power to ask for love because they don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. But we, who have love, and long to mingle it with the love of others: we cannot utter a word.You find that, don't you?

- George Bernard Shaw
  Marchbanks to Proserpine. Candida, act 2.

'Tis no shame for men Of his high birth to love a wench; his honour May privilege more sins. Next to a woman, He loves a running-horse.

-James Shirley
  Hyde Park, act1, sc.1.

Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame; Who seek, who hope, who love, who live, but thee: Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history; If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.

- Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway Shute
Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 90.

   I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

- Laurence Sterne
  A SentimentalJourney,'The Monk, Calais'.

Only the deep sense of some deathless shame.

-John Webster
  TheWhite Devil, act 2, sc.1.

Into the face of the young man†had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

-Plum
  The Luck of the Bodkins, ch.1.

   A dead reign†a strange epoch of folly and shame.

- EŁ  mile Zola
On the France of the Second Empire. Quoted inJoanna Richardson LaVie Parisienne (1971), p.276.