Dan Quayle Quotes

The only shame is to have none.

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

I don't get embarrassed.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

We're going to hang our heads high.

I've already been KO'd, embarrassed. Nothing is going to be worse than that, so what's to be scared of?

I don't have no shame.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.