Top 370 Shame Quotes

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Keanu Reeves
I’ve always believed that makeup is a form of self-expression and there is no shame in experimenting with it.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
Terry Eagleton
It’s a big shame, because ‘Trixter’ in my mind were what a real rock n’ roll band is all about.
Steve Brown
I’ve never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about.
Paul Giamatti
We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
Jim Cooper
An ever-widening definition of abuse can incite a culture of fear and complaint: encouraging teachers and girls to name and shame could mean labelling sexually awkward teenage boys as sex pests.
Claire Fox
Many said I am not a Baloch and I have nothing to do with the community; in general, the feeling is that I am doing everything to bring shame to Pakistan. But I will not stop.
Qandeel Baloch
When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
Pamela Stephenson
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Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings – homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.
Evan Davis
I have so many other things going on that if ‘A Dirty Shame’ is my last movie, that’s OK.
John Waters
I had a gentleman steal or ‘misplace’ – I guess I should say ‘allegedly’ – a lot of money from me. It didn’t make any sense when it was happening, because I just didn’t understand why I didn’t have any money. I was a perfect mark because I had all of this shame and insecurity about money.
Baron Vaughn
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don’t read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
Nick Cave
When I can afford it, I’m very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it’s a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.
Sprague Grayden
Acting for me, is a passion, but it’s also a job, and I’ve always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There’s no shame in taking a film because you need some money.
James Spader
I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.
Min Jin Lee
Anything that’s on television as often as someone on ‘The X Factor’ is what’s successful. That doesn’t mean that I condone that or think that it’s right. To be honest, I’d be the first to say I think it’s a shame. But if that’s the way it is then that’s the way it is.
Paloma Faith
When I was growing up, I didn’t know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn’t actively expressing it.
Teddy Geiger
You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I’m coming after you and taking back what’s mine.
Billy Mays
Whenever we feel shame, it’s a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
Leslie Jamison
When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It’s a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.
Sergey Galitsky
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.
Michael Eric Dyson
To publicly shame and attack someone who’s been found to be harassed, to intimidate someone who’s found to already have been harassed is unacceptable.
Jagmeet Singh
So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
David Byrne
I don’t understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we’ve made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that’s a shame.
Malcolm Gladwell
Tanushree Dutta is spoiling my image with her fake ‘me too’ propaganda which she imported from America. She hates India and is bringing shame to the country with her antics. She loves America instead.
Rakhi Sawant
The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn’t stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn’t walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.
Subcomandante Marcos
I’m afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one’s experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music – that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.
Jim Harrison
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don’t feel any shame over it. It’s only the opinion-makers and the ‘opinion elites’ who turn up their noses.
Bill James
I didn’t knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, ‘Wow, I don’t understand what this guy’s talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.’
David Mamet
A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that’s because it’s tied to so much shame and guilt… That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we’re afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we’ve been taught about it.
Aldis Hodge
I think it’s a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.
Marianne Faithfull
Everyone always wants women to fight and it’s a real shame that it undoes all the good that ‘Loose Women’ does. While we laugh and talk about silly subjects, we also talk about really important subjects.
Frankie Bridge
If a child had another disease, we’d be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and guilt.
David Sheff
To be honest, I’m shocked the University of Washington’s sports teams are called the Huskies. Why haven’t the Leftists that run this entire state demanded they be renamed the ‘Athletes of Size’ so as to not fat shame anyone?
Milo Yiannopoulos
Why is it controversial that I chose to talk about my abortion? And the fact that I got an abortion when I was in a marriage and could have financially supported a child, why did I feel so much shame for that?
Tess Holliday
I wrote a ‘Lenny Letter’ on a whim, and it felt indulgent, but people came up to me with tears in their eyes saying, ‘Thank you.’ There’s so much shame about mental illness in our country and so many stereotypes about women being ‘crazy’ or ‘psycho.’
Whitney Cummings
Men are my bread and butter. It’s what I live for! I have no shame about that.
Fiona Apple
You know the great irony is that people think you have

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Ted Allen
Don’t let anyone shame you for what you read or what you love in general. Many people are gonna tell you not to do xyz things.
Sarah J. Maas
Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
Joni Mitchell
The old saying goes, ‘Hit me with a cast once, shame on me, hit me with a cast twice, you’re a dead man.’
Tommaso Ciampa
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
Benedict Cumberbatch
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl A. Menninger
Now they’re attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture – their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
Robert Towne
I think a lot of people feel shame when they revisit their years of addiction.
Caroline Calloway
I personally have no shame in saying I am extremely interested in fashion. I am not as interested in trends. I won’t go on Style.com unless I’m looking for stuff to wear to an event, or there’s a designer I am interested in.
Josephine de La Baume
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn’t carry on her education.
Sarah Gavron
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn’t even belong to us, but we still experience it because we’re a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
Lupita Nyong’o
The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history’s hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.
Jacob Weisberg
Rather than diminishing the idea of ‘truly needing’ a relationship – and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it – why not just celebrate it? It’s exactly what the world needs.
Tracy McMillan