#shame

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ↗

— Jean Genet

#constitute #crimes #history #man #people

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#beautiful #because #i #i am #now

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

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#anybody #desire #errand #i #instruct

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

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#black-and-white #day #go #great #i

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine. ↗

— Mark Millar

#captain #captain america #i #i see #likewise

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#let us #shame #speak #think #us

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