#shame

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#cure #everyone #faults #fear #his

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of. ↗

— Peter Tork

#did #how #i #knew #nothing

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#because #brother #brother and sister #family #father

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#committed #europe #head #history #horrors

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin. ↗

— William Gurnall

#ashamed #make #mercy #should #sin

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ↗

— Robert Half

#hard work #shame #talent #tragedy #without

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#door #every #excluded #face #henry

The only shame is to have none. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#only #shame

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. ↗

— Martha Beck

#arbitrary #beauty #beliefs #body #exists

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#ashamed #confess #confessing #i #i am