#shame

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself. ↗

— Jude Law

#ashamed #biggest #celebrity #dirty #ever

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#actions #bad #because #built #does

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#american dream #ashamed #demonize #dream #something

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#afraid #ashamed #errors #find #his

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#correspondence #i #letters #like #lost

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ↗

— George McGovern

#advocate #ashamed #course #man #private

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#let us #shame #speak #think #us

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!. ↗

— Johann Most

#maintains #none #revolutionary #say #shame

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#ashamed #attacking #awful #because #damage

Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #shame #funny