Shame

Shame is worse than death. – Proverb

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

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings

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? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. – Paul Chatfield

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. – Salvador Dali

When all our deeds of glory are laid in front of Thee, – Connie Dover

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. – St. Gregory The Great

We never forgive those who make us blush. – Jean-Francois De La Harpe

Theres a blush for won t, and a blush for shant, and a blush for having done it: Theres a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it. – John Keats

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

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. – John Lyly

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed. – Alex Mitchell