Top 370 Shame Quotes

Well it’s because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it’s a shame.
Marian McPartland
It’s a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.
Milo Yiannopoulos
I am one who shows great respect and commends the Cuban people for having the guts to go over to Cuba to get Cubans out when they had the opportunity to do it. I think it’s a… shame that the Jews here in the United States in the 1930s didn’t do the same for other Jews who were also in trouble.
Norman Braman
If parents know how many times others are finding lice on their kids’ heads, maybe other parents will not hide their own discoveries in shame.
Stephanie Land
No one should feel comfortable venting racist abuse, whether from the stands or through media outlets. Just as fans must call out any fans they see hurling abuse, journalists must call out colleagues who perpetuate divisive rhetoric. Name and shame them.
Eniola Aluko
I think the thing that makes ‘NCIS’ so special is the team and the group. And there’s our fearless leader, Mark Harmon. We all really enjoy working together, so it would be a shame if we weren’t all there having fun together.
Michael Weatherly
To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.
Emma Gonzalez
I feel no shame getting in bed at nine.
Su-chin Pak
I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel, day after day, helplessly and in silence.
W. S. Merwin
I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.
Thom Yorke
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon
It’s a shame to mix sports and politics.
Eddy Merckx
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn’t want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don’t know why. Maybe it was shame. I don’t know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.
Carol Vorderman
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It’s the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That’s the power of the gospel.
Ben Harper
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
Henry Lawson
The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It’s associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family – apart from a clog-dancer way back.
Jools Holland
I started painting my nails and started wearing some women’s clothing, but that whole side of me always caused problems in my intimate relationships. There was a lot of shame attached to it. I’d talk to people I was dating about it but still feel ashamed.
Teddy Geiger
There is no shame in wanting to age naturally or wanting to ‘age gracefully’ with a little help from products or procedures.
Mel Robbins
In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.
Dennis Prager
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.
Brene Brown
There’s no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
Colin Trevorrow
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Henry Mayhew
I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
Dolly Parton
It’s not that that I’m not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can’t take away the shame or embarrassment even though you’re a model. It’s not just erased.
Paloma Elsesser
That’s the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn’t have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can’t have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.
Eric Braeden
Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of ‘Dead Poets Society,’ but actually no one really cared.
Derren Brown
I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it’s a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.
Justine Bateman
It’s really a shame for the coaching profession that it’s so volatile.
Erik Spoelstra
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine
There has been great progress made in the world, but the fact that we’re still fighting against discrimination means we’ve gone backwards and that’s a shame.
Kalidou Koulibaly
Comedians shame people.
Frankie Boyle
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Isoroku Yamamoto
There’s a lot of pressure to meet up with people. I haven’t changed, but my friends find it difficult to be around me. It’s quite a shame to see them grow apart from me. I’ve lost a lot of people around me.
Jin
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.
Will Smith
I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
Zadie Smith
We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
Michelle Malkin
I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.
Amy Winehouse
I have never played a Test match at the Eden… It’s such a big shame and disappointment.
Brian Lara
I think it’s a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it’s as if you do one thing, and that’s all you’re allowed to do.
Lewis Hamilton
An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.
Debbie Ford
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk
It’s really important that we take away the shame associated with female hair loss and hair balding. It’s just another beauty issue that we all can get through as soon as we start to feel more comfortable talking about it.
Huda Kattan
You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we’ve convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It’s a shame. It’s the media and the food industry: they’ve fed our panic around time.
Michael Pollan
To show weakness, we’re told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.
Mardy Fish
Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it’s destroyed music. It’s destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It’s a shame.
Kirk Hammett
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, – when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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
Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it’s baseless, it’s still hard to come face-to-face with.
Alex Tizon
I was raised by my mom, pretty much, and she just had this very non-judgmental, having no shame about yourself, no regrets, just trusting your gut and your instinct, and treating yourself with respect.
Lily Collins
Shame is something you’ll find a lot of – particularly Catholic – girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That’s the way to crush a girl.
Rachel Cusk
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
Sonia Sotomayor
There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don’t really speak English, and I don’t speak Chinese, and that’s my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that’s really crazy.
Alan Yang
I was always the shame of the family – the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
Randy Harrison