#shame

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#affairs #alone #casual #detests #enough

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#generally #good #good reputation #lose #more

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

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#child #effectual #fitter #generally #more

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#calls #immoral #own #shame #show

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people. ↗

— Louie Anderson

#any #anybody #ashamed #did #done

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#always #ashamed #being #being afraid #bottom

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

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