Shame
A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.
To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
To mock at; to deride.
To be ashamed; to feel shame.
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Shame Quotations
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Marquis de Sade
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
Charles Barkley
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus
Shame Translations
shame in Afrikaans is skaamte
shame in Dutch is foei
shame in French is honte, vergogne
shame in German is Scham, Schande
shame in Italian is pudore, disonore
shame in Latin is rubor, verecundia, dedecus
shame in Swedish is skam, blygsel
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