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| Skam är stolthetens kloak. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame | Ugo Betti (1892-1953) |
| The only shame is to have none | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages | Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956) |
| Doubt is the brother of shame. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The guilty catch themselves | Proverb |
| Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart,- yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| Shameless craving must have shameful nay | Fred Woodworth |
| It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. | Fred Woodworth |
| Jo mer en mann skammer seg over, jo mer respektabel er han. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |