Shame

"I thoroughly enjoy seeing a beautifully proportioned nude male. So did Michelangelo and Rodin. But if the male is blubbery, he should keep his beer barrel to himself and not be a portly polluter."

"You do not wish to name Zeus, who had done it, and who made all things grow, for where there is fear there is also shame."

"Antony, however, according to his custom, returned alone to his own cell, increased his discipline, and sighed daily as he thought of the mansions in Heaven, having his desire fixed on them, and pondering over the shortness of man's life. And he used to eat and sleep, and go about all other bodily necessities with shame when he thought of the spiritual faculties of the soul. So often, when about to eat with any other hermits, recollecting the spiritual food, he begged to be excused, and departed far off from them, deeming it a matter for shame if he should be seen eating by others."

"Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame."

"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile."

"I can remember (I remember) Standing, by the wall (by the wall) And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads) And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall) And the shame, was on the other side Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever Then we could be Heroes, just for one day"

"A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better."

"If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame"

"Some cultural anthropologists posit that Westerners do the right thing to avoid feeling guilty, and Asians do the right thing to avoid feeling shame. If correct, it would explain the deeply ingrained aversion to a loss of face among Chinese people, as shame, unlike guilt, implies the public knows about the act."

"It's a great big shame, and if she belongs to me, I'll let 'er know who's who. Naggin' at a fella who is six foot three And 'er only four foot two. They 'adn't been married, not a month or more, When underneath 'er thumb goes Jim. Oh isn't it a pity that the likes of er Should put upon the likes of im!"

""Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him."

"Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life."

"The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is—to die."

"A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar."

"Yet of old the matter seemed even to be a law, and a certain law-giver among them bade the domestic slaves neither to use ointments when dry (i.e. except in bathing) nor to keep youths, giving the free this place of honor, or rather of shamefulness. Yet they, however, did not think the thing shameful, but as being a grand privilege, and one too great for slaves, the Athenian people, the wisest of people, and Solon who is so great among them, permitted it to the free alone. And sundry other books of the philosophers may one see full of this disease. But we do not therefore say that the thing was made lawful, but that they who received this law were pitiable, and objects for many tears. For these are treated in the same way as women that play the whore. Or rather their plight is more miserable. For in the case of the one the intercourse, even if lawless, is yet according to nature: but this is contrary both to law and nature. For even if there were no hell, and no punishment had been threatened, this were worse than any punishment. Yet if you say they found pleasure in it, you tell me what adds to the vengeance. For suppose I were to see a person running naked, with his body all besmeared with mire, and yet not covering himself, but exulting in it, I should not rejoice with him, but should rather bewail that he did not even perceive that he was doing shamefully."

"As long as you will have a feeling of shame, you will not lightly commit sins."

"it was just as important to me to recognize loss and turmoil just as I chose to share joy...I believe it is just as important to highlight and memorialize all aspects of our world and cultures. To me, it is important not to bury the shame and trauma caused by the issues you ask about."

"Pudet hæc opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli."

"Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heat assails."

"Racial discrimination a mark of shame on twentieth-century man, although intolerable to most humans can still be seen in various parts of the world. And the power-seeking policies of the strong are hampering the execution of United Nations' ideals."

"O shame! Where is thy blush?"

"All is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes."

"He was not born to shame: Upon his brow shame was asham'd to sit; For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd Sole monarch of the universal earth."

"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

"Wine and women corrupt the best of men; whoever frequents prostitutes loses all sense of shame."

"Therefore, feel shame according to what I say. It is not always fitting to feel shame, but this is not understood by everyone. Be ashamed of licentiousness before your father and mother, and of a lie before a ruler or an important person. Be ashamed of criminal behavior before a judge, and of iniquity before an assembly of people. Feel ashamed of dishonesty before your partner or friend, and of a theft in the place where you live. Be ashamed before the truth of God and his covenant. Be ashamed of keeping the loaves for yourself, of being unable to give and to receive, of not returning a greeting, of staring at a prostitute, of rejecting a compatriot, of depriving someone of what is his, of gazing at another man’s wife, of being too familiar with your maidservant– keep away from her bed! of insulting words to a friend – do not follow up a gift with a reproach! of repeating what you have heard and betraying secrets. On these occasions feel genuine shame and you will be respected by all."

"Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas"

"For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German."

"Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old."

"Maggior difetto men vergogna lava."

"If yet not lost to all the sense of shame."

"Næ simul pudere quod non oportet cœperit; quod oportet non pudebit."

"Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniæ vel frugalitatis."

"Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor."

"The most curious offspring of shame is shyness."