Top 100 Shame On Quotes
#1. Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.
Tia Giacalone
#2. I think that a show that is as successful as 'The Golden Girls' is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don't feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that's a privilege.
Betty White
#3. I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
Louis Armstrong
#4. Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.
J.C. Ryle
#5. Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
Joni Mitchell
#6. When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.
Robert Redford
#7. Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
Emil Cioran
#8. Shame on you! Think what this child has done! You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.
Philip Pullman
#9. You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.
Rumi
#10. Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global Warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'
Joe Lieberman
#11. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.
Mordecai
#12. If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#13. Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
Michel De Montaigne
#14. Fool me once,
shame on you!
Fool my bestfriend
your dead freakin meat
Sara Shepard
#15. If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you ... you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.
Don Farrell
#16. 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
#17. Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.
Virginia McKenna
#18. Shame on our cold hearts! We are but poor lovers of our sweet Lord Jesus, not fit to be his servants, much less to be his brides, and yet he hath exalted us to be bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, married to him by a glorious marriage covenant. Herein is love!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. Hurt me once, shame on you; hurt me twice, shame on me.
Rachel Simmons
#20. Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.
Mordecai Richler
#21. Now shame on the coward soul, which wants the courage either to be a firm friend, or an open enemy.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#22. Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.
Linda Wisdom
#23. Shame on an orc who run game on an orc. Mother fucker. *revs harley*
Thrall
#24. Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, "Don't you believe in second chances?"
The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun.
"Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Cinda Williams Chima
#25. Hurt me once: shame on me. Hurt me twice: shame on me. Hurt me three times: shame on me but fuck you. Hurt me four times and we'll get severed-head biblical.
Trista Mateer
#26. Stop it!" I hissed glaring at both in turn. "Stop it right now! Put your weapons up, both of you! Ash, you're in no condition to fight, and, Puck, shame on you, agreeing to duel him when he's obviously hurt. Sit down and shut up."
-Meghan
Julie Kagawa
#27. Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.
Phyllis Schlafly
#28. She bent her chin to her chest. She mumbled something I did not catch. It sounded like, Shame on us all for not having stopped it.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#29. Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John Dryden
#30. Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
#32. I cannot be your mistress," I say simply. "I would rather die than dishonor my name. I cannot bring that shame on my family." I pause. I am anxious not to be too discouraging. "Whatever I might wish in my heart," I say very softly.
Philippa Gregory
#33. These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks. I would never vote for them. I wouldn't even listen to them because there but for the grace of God go they.
Howard Stern
#34. If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.
Dan Seals
#36. There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
William Harvey
#37. Cheat on me once, shame on him. Cheat on me twice... what the actual fuck is going on?
R.S. Grey
#38. Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be ... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
Xavier Becerra
#39. For I am no orator. What would I have said if they had let me go on? That it is worse to beat a man's feet to pulp than to kill him in combat? That it brings shame on everyone when a girl is permitted to flog a man? That spectacles of cruelty corrupt the hearts of the innocent?
J.M. Coetzee
#40. Like most of my colleagues, I promise my constituents a lot of stuff I can never deliver. But what the hell? If it makes them happy hearing it, and they're stupid enough to believe it, shame on them.
Congressman X
#41. If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.
Leigh Anne Tuohy
#42. You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.
Jeff Bezos
#43. Shame on those who remain unmoved, whose pace fails to quicken, on entering one of these old habitations, a manor-house falling to wrack and ruin or a desecrated church!
Petrus Borel
#44. When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' This sense of urgency was instilled when my mom died. If you only go through life doing stuff that's easy, shame on you.
Carol S. Dweck
#45. I also had another motto: Fool me once, shame on me. You won't fool me twice.
Karina Halle
#46. As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me' ... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.
Chuck Norris
#47. There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
George W. Bush
#48. If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#49. Shame on you for staying the same.
Jhene Aiko
#50. Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!
Gary Patton
#52. Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.
John Zakour
#53. Shame on the shepherd who runs and hides when wolves are coming to harm his flock.
Scott Mariani
#54. You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from childhood onwards to grasp the spirit of the best and wisest in every age. Shame on the artist who does not consider it his duty to achieve at least so much.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#55. Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
Aaron Hill
#56. Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
Damon Wayans
#57. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I'll put a whole magazine of bullets in your skull.
Robert J. Crane
#58. When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.
Eric Ries
#59. We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies' And we're going to say, Shame on you. Shame on you for giving him the authority to invade Iraq.
Cindy Sheehan
#60. Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking throat.
Brenna Yovanoff
#62. Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. Fool me once, shame on me ... fool me twice ... I deserved to get fucked over.
Derekica Snake
#64. Oh shame on you, who call yourself a Christian! Do you not see that it is the grossest idolatry to speak of the market as though it were the rival of God?
Amitav Ghosh
#65. Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
Samuel Adams
#66. Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.
Jessica Zafra
#67. Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, shame on me. Kill my brother? Oh, it's on. And you are not going to enjoy it.
Mira Grant
#68. Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.
Dan Simmons
#69. Oh no! No, you didn't! You done had a buffet and you didn't invite the Simi, for shame on you akri-Caleb! You a mean demon boy! You off the Simi Christmas list for that! No oven mitt for you! Bad, bad demon, bad! Simi
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Edgar Allan Poe
#71. Fool me once; fool me twice; but shame on me if you fool me thrice.
Nabil N. Jamal
#72. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.
David W. Earle
#73. The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
William Golding
#74. I had called him out on being creepy, justifiably so, and it didn't faze him at all. He didn't stammer an apology or flush with shame and regret. He just kept looking at me evenly. Most likely, he was a damn sociopath, and for whatever reason, I found that endearing.
Amanda Hocking
#75. But suffering does not automatically bring glory to God and blessing to God's people. Some believers have fainted and fallen in times of trial and have brought shame to the name of Christ. It is only when we depend on the grace of God that we can glorify God in times of suffering.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#76. You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.
Steve Harvey
#77. Steal not this book for fear of shame
For on it is the owners name
And when you die the Lord will say
Where is the book you stole away
And when you say you do not know
The Lord will say go down below.
L.M. Montgomery
#78. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.
John McCain
#79. You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
Jeff Bridges
#80. Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.
Rodney Yee
#81. The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.
Nabeshima Naoshige
#83. Goodnight, child. This is a damn shame. Let's drop it out of the picture." He gave her two lines of hospital patter to go to sleep on. "So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That's an old-fashioned idea, isn't it?
F Scott Fitzgerald
#84. 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
#85. Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.
Tian Dayton
#86. The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.
Niels Henrik Abel
#87. Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Him
last
When out of the woods He came.
Sidney Lanier
#88. If you do not love me, say, nonetheless, you do, for on your tongue falsehood for very shame would turn to truth.
Oscar Wilde
#89. The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.
D.H. Lawrence
#90. Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.
Augusten Burroughs
#91. The happiest field in all the harvest is the field of sunflowers at their peak. Drinking the rays and dancing in the breeze. The saddest field is the same field, six weeks later. Drunk on the sun and burnt with shame, they drop their heads to hide their mane.
R.S. Barrington
#92. She hadn't thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood. But she hadn't counted on despair. Somehow despair always made room for itself.
Nora Roberts
#93. How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But not for works which we have done, or shall hereafter do, hath God decreed on sinful men salvation to bestow.
Augustus Toplady
#94. In the night I come to you and it seems a shame
to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.
Carolyn Forche
#95. Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it ... you can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.
Monica Lewinsky
#96. In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing
the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.
May Sarton
#97. I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide.
George Carlin
#98. Shame is also a covert and effective bullying method. All those bullies from the seventh grade didn't simply evaporate. They grew up, too, and it's pretty safe to assume that the majority did not seek therapy on their eighteenth birthday to explore their disturbing childhood need for cruelty.
Augusten Burroughs
#99. I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.
Andy Serkis
#100. You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.
Iyanla Vanzant
