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Shame is worse than death.
-Proverb
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Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.
-Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
-Josh Billings
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
-Francis H. Bradley
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
-Edmund Burke
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
-Edmund Burke
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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
-Paul Chatfield
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
-Robin G. Collingwood
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
-Salvador Dali
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When all our deeds of glory are laid in front of Thee,
-Connie Dover
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When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
-St. Gregory The Great
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We never forgive those who make us blush.
-Jean-Francois De La Harpe
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There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.
-John Keats
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One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
-Louis Kronenberger
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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
-Milan Kundera
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
-John Lyly
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
-Bernard Mandeville
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History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.
-Alex Mitchell
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
-Moli
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As a child grows in an environment in which his needs and longings for specialness and warm relatedness are consistently frustrated, he begins to turn away from his own needs in depression and shame. We can imagine the young child wondering, What is wrong with me that I get so little response from my mother? The two possible answers are I am too defective and unworthy of love, and there is something wrong with what I am asking for. In both cases, there is something wrong, either with the child himself or with his needs and desires. This experience of unimportance or wrongness is the common relational backdrop for vulnerability and susceptibility to shame.
-Andrew P. Morrison
The Culture of Shame (Northvale, New Jersey:Jason Aronson,Inc. 1998), 66
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Books about Shame
