#sham

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

You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#experience

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

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#colored #great #i #i think #many

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

#appears #beyond #comment #detail #difficult

It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way. ↗

— Davy Jones

#commerce #could #crying #different #different way

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#ashamed #body #curves #i #i am

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

I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies. ↗

— Tommy Kirk

#been #being #gay #i #never

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. ↗

— Paul Klee

#beautiful #beautiful woman #beauty #because #certain