Top 75 Shameful Quotes

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

And then the conditions of safety – or lack of safety – for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it’s shameful.

I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values – faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don’t know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

It’s beyond shameful this House can pass trillions of dollars in tax breaks for those with the most security but not see it to provide its way, see its way to provide health insurance for the children most in need.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by ‘dysmorphic OCD thoughts,’ being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal.

Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the early 1990s: being gay was no longer criminal or shameful, but it was still not a topic for polite conversation or public discussion.

The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments… They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you’re no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it’s about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

There’s a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it’s shameful. That’s really disturbing to me.

It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse – though free verse is no guarantee against banality.

Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are traumatized, our entire organism is geared up to find the source of that threat and to do something about it.

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy which saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful. Its only use is the exposure of all forms of baseness of thought.

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

I don’t think it’s shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

When we hear the word ‘slavery,’ it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful chapter of our past. But sadly it is very much part of our world today.

It’s estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression – and I include myself in that statistic. It’s real, and it’s not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.

I like my shame straight up and honest, and nobody does it better than In-N-Out Burger. You go to In-N-Out Burger, and they ask you the most shameful question in fast food. ‘I’ll have a burger, fries and a Coke.’ ‘Will you be eating in the car?’ ‘Yeah. I think so.’

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, ‘Oh my God, I’m exactly the same.’ Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.

In North Korean culture, love is a shameful thing and nobody talked about it in public. The regime was not interested in human desires and love stories were banned.

It’s shameful to admit, but it’s been a bit of a lifelong affair, and I do now feel I’m as good as it gets. I’m honourable, kind, friendly, warm, intelligent, generous, and I’ve got a good sense of humour.

Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world.

I’ve been a director and chairman of three good, modest clubs – Coventry, Charlton and Fulham – and the abuse you get can be cruel and shameful. I’ve had a wonderful life and wouldn’t change a moment of it professionally – except that I should never have become a director.

I’m a great believer in the principle of try it and work it out. If a gadget is designed well, you can easily work out how to use it. But if you can’t, it isn’t shameful to read the instructions.

I’m a 12-14. I don’t think ‘plus size’ is a shameful term at all, I just feel that it’s important to label me properly as to not send incorrect messaging about my size.

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country’s history.

When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work – it implied that her husband couldn’t earn enough to keep her.

It is the women who bring the men to this world: men are there because of women. It was my mother who brought me out of a health condition that threatened to usurp me completely. If we still treat women with disrespect, it is utterly shameful.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

Second of all, I don’t think Wall Street is doing what it’s supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They’re are not allocating capital.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I’ve been in the neighborhood.

It’s absolutely shameful that Rep. Grijalva would try to use tribes as political pawns to implement the misguided agenda of extremist environmental groups.

Why don’t you think we should dream of an African team winning the World Cup for the first time? People never allow this thought to cross their minds, and it is shameful. When you try to even say it, people look at you as if you’re joking, but they forget that dreaming is the first step to success.

There is nothing shameful about being efficient.

I found myself compelled – like this weird, shameful compulsion – to draw cute animals.

I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don’t know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped – there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done – but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

This is a shameful thing to say, but I’ve never really got that ‘grown-up’ mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?