#sham

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin. ↗

— William Gurnall

#ashamed #make #mercy #should #sin

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. ↗

— David Hackworth

#meaning #more #old #racket #saying

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. ↗

— William Hague

#defenders #disgrace #ethnic #human #human rights

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset. ↗

— Otto Hahn

#felt #i #much #profoundly #upset

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ↗

— Robert Half

#hard work #shame #talent #tragedy #without

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#always #born #family #i #north

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms. ↗

— King Hassan II

#arms #contrary #cowardly #down #his

The public have neither shame or gratitude. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#neither #public #shame

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗

— Hesiod

#shame #source #toil