#shame

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#say #should #think

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#makes #scaffold #shame

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#fear #guides #i #just #know

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#know #parliament

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#ashamed #bad #done #i #nothing

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#david #education #embarrassed #foster #gap

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#black #glorious #greatness #national #rather

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 gave up shame a long time ago. ↗

— John Lithgow

#gave #i #long #long time #shame