#ashamed

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#am #ashamed #given #habit #had

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#country #country music #faces #get #i

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#caused #contrary #example #first #good

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#ashamed #confusion #equal #excitement #fear

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#ashamed #in other words #other #saying #should

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#ashamed #bath #been #change #dad

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ↗

— Will Rogers

#gossip #live #parrot #sell #such

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. ↗

— Elton John

#fact #i #machine #more #taking

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. ↗

— B. B. King

#ashamed #bit #blues #child #family