“
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
— Shame
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
You do not wish to name Zeus, who had done it, and who madeall things grow, for where there is fear there is also shame.
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame
"Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.
Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife,Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
The only art her guilt to cover, And wring his bosom, is—to die.
A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.
As long as you will have a feeling of shame, you will not lightly commit sins.
Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,And each by turns his aching heat assails.
O shame! Where is thy blush?
All is confounded, all!Sits mocking in our plumes.
He was not born to shame:Sole monarch of the universal earth.
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 opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
