#shame

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#know #parliament

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#any #anything #ashamed #body #faith

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ↗

— Jean Genet

#constitute #crimes #history #man #people

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#beautiful #because #i #i am #now

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself. ↗

— Jude Law

#ashamed #biggest #celebrity #dirty #ever

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

I gave up shame a long time ago. ↗

— John Lithgow

#gave #i #long #long time #shame

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#anybody #desire #errand #i #instruct

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#caused #contrary #example #first #good