Top 100 Quotes About Ashamed
#1. The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.
Michel Faber
#2. Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
Robert Reich
#3. [W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
Anton Chekhov
#4. Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.
Richard Widmark
#5. It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
Jessica Lange
#6. No longer would they be locked away in her heart. No longer would she be ashamed.
Sarah J. Maas
#7. I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.
Robert Kennedy
#8. I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all - whether it's fancy, cheap or, I'm ashamed to say, even if it's bad for the environment.
Beth Ditto
#9. If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.
Dirk Nowitzki
#10. It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
Gautama Buddha
#11. I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#12. So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?
Yana Toboso
#13. I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term social justice.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#14. I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.
Mike Wallace
#15. A local butcher offered me money to put in my next book a portrayal of a customer he didn't like that would make him ashamed to show his face in the town. It was like the tradition of the Gaelic poets, who were paid money to write in derision about people.
John McGahern
#16. The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Livy
#18. I am ashamed to admit that I have contemplated living versus ending it all.
J.L. Mac
#19. Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#20. I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.
Medea Benjamin
#21. Fifty?" Harry gasped.
"Fifty points each," said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.
"Professor - please - "
"You can't - "
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do, Potter. I've never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students.
J.K. Rowling
#22. We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw
#23. It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
Jerome K. Jerome
#25. Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.
Mordecai
#27. The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And inside they'd pulled together a staggering display of Regency furniture. I've seen most of the stuff that matters. I simply stood there, gaping.
Jonathan Gash
#28. Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and
freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning any
more. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember
all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist
writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.
Arnold Wesker
#29. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box
George Orwell
#30. But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
Minnie Driver
#32. We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
Victor Hugo
#33. For often we wickedly blind ourselves to the occasions of teaching and admonishing them, sometimes even of reprimanding and chiding them, either because we shrink from the labor or are ashamed to offend them, or because we fear to lose good friendships,
Augustine Of Hippo
#34. We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents ... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it.
Cory Booker
#35. Jane will be quite an old main soon,I declare. She is almost three-and-twenty! Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!
Jane Austen
#36. How can everyone help bring peace to the world? By not being ashamed of who they are and by acting according to their heart's desires. And by telling their stories.
Paulo Coelho
#37. I can't tell if I should be ashamed of wanting to hold you on this day, or grateful that, despite what happened before now, it somehow brought me to you.
Sarah J. Maas
#38. You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.
Thomas Jefferson
#39. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of - until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.
Daniel Pinkwater
#40. Forcing girls to be ashamed for doing the things that come natural to them - it's a ridiculous double standard, and we should all, frankly, tell anyone who judges us to screw off.
Siobhan Vivian
#42. For it will come to pass that even the most corrupt of our rich men will finally be ashamed of his riches before the poor man, and the poor man, seeing his humility, will understand and yield to him in joy, and will respond with kindness to his gracious shame.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#43. I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.
Patsy Kelly
#44. I am in no degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed?
Bertrand Russell
#45. Never be ashamed of your problems, your body, yourself. You are worth life.
Demi Lovato
#46. If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.
Jean Shrimpton
#47. Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.
George W. Bush
#48. I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca.
#49. Despondency, is not a virtue; I believe it is a vice. I am heartily ashamed of myself for falling into it, but I am sure there is no remedy for it like a holy faith in God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#50. But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.
Gena Showalter
#51. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.
Whitney Johnson
#52. I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
Reba McEntire
#53. Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
Vash Young
#54. Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.
Louis De Bernieres
#55. I used to be ashamed
And now I am proud.
The world once was black
And now it is bright.
I used to walk head bent
And now I stand up tall.
I used to have dreams
But now I have hope.
Judith McNaught
#56. I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
Charles Bukowski
#57. I glanced up into round black eyes, ringed in yellow, but in some small part I saw humanity there. Sadness. It blinked. "Made," it said quietly, almost ashamed.
Kelly Keaton
#58. I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
Chrissie Hynde
#59. Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.
Charles V. Chapin
#61. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. You all should be spanked for this.
Shaquille O'Neal
#62. My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.
Lena Dunham
#63. Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
Brian Jacques
#64. I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.
Amy Lee
#65. I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
Ratan Tata
#66. For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.
Mae West
#67. All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world. For a person of Zen, no limits exist. The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small."
Muso Soseki
Muso Soseki
#68. I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives
philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#69. The neighborhood is pretty rough." I rubbed the hair on the back of my neck feeling a little ashamed about that. We tried to keep it as clean as we could but we weren't saints.
"I'm starting to gather that. Thanks, Clay. Night."
"Night."
"You got it bad man.
Shandy L. Kurth
#70. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
#72. The Master said, "A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with."
(Analects 4.9)
Confucius
#73. I've been known to watch porn from time to time."
"Just from time to time?" I ask.
She shrugs naughtily, a little I've-got-a-secret look in her eyes.
"It's okay. Tell the doctor. Masturbation is normal. Don't be ashamed.
Lauren Blakely
#74. The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#75. What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.
Charles A. Dana
#76. I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
Kangana Ranaut
#77. This will not be a gentle prescription for healing, but cautery and the knife. What shall I achieve? That a soul which has conquered so many miseries will be ashamed to worry about one more wound in a body which already has so many scars.
Seneca.
#78. I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else
Bedrich Smetana
#79. I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?
Amy Reed
#80. My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
Jodie Foster
#81. I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
Camryn Manheim
#82. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.
Julia Sweeney
#83. Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.
Gautama Buddha
#84. Actually, with those dirty movies, I find like, they're good for about fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm really interested. And, then, uh, there's one point, that all of a sudden I'm bored. You know? I just lose interest completely and I feel deeply ashamed.
Norm MacDonald
#85. It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#86. Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's nothing to be particularly proud of, either.
Matt Groening
#87. PSA40.14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Anonymous
#88. Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
Jules Renard
#89. The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
Charles Caleb Colton
#90. I'm not judging myself; I'm not dissing what I do. I'm proud of what I've done and I'm proud of what I'm working on. I've accomplished something and I'm not going to be ashamed to be happy about what I've done.
Nicki Minaj
#91. It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box
George Orwell
#92. Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
William Davenant
#93. I've gotten pretty good at making myself feel ashamed. I can even use shame in a theoretical sense to make myself do the right thing BEFORE I do the wrong thing.
Allie Brosh
#94. I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
Louie Anderson
#95. I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.
Bill Cosby
#96. One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.
Leo Tolstoy
#97. I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
Seneca The Younger
#98. When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me with guilt and shame.
Nathan Rabin
#99. We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D.H. Lawrence
#100. I'm not ashamed of showing my curves to the world. Bodies are beautiful when they're full and healthy and fit. I've always had curves and I'll always be proud of them.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
