"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."

"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."

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

"O shame! Where is thy blush?"

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar."

"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."

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

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

"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!"

"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."

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

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

"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"

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"I sit with my toes in a brook. And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I."

"Too quick a sense of constant infelicity."

"To touch the quick."

"It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd Fast to the spot such root she took, And—like a sunflower by a brook, With face upturn'd—so still remain'd!"

"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."

"Noli me tangere."

"Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone than by unexpected words."

"Sed tacitus pasci si posset corvus, haberet Plus dapis, et rixæ multo minus invidiæque."

"O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip!"

"A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at!"

"Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee."

"אַל-תּוֹכַח לֵץ פֶּן-יִשְׂנָאֶךָּ הוֹכַח לְחָכָם וְיֶאֱהָבֶךָּ"

"He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn."

"He will laugh thee to scorn."

"So let him stand, through ages yet unborn, Fix'd statue on the pedestal of Scorn."

"Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est."

"Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm."

"My cup runneth over."

"Ohe! jam satis est."

"Multa petentibus Desunt multa. Bene est, cui Deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est manu."

"Nul n'est content de sa fortune; Ni mécontent de son esprit."

"Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene; No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there."

"Enough is as good as a feast."

"He is well paid that is well satisfied."

"Est bien fou du cerveau Qui prétend contenter tout le monde et son père."