Shameful Acts Quotes

All fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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.

Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

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

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Of all the shameful and infamous expedients whereby man has preyed upon man … this vile thing [the rubber trade] dares to call itself commerce.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

For me, the thing that is different about Trump is that you don't realize it, and I didn't realize it, but there is a rhythm that the political press - including myself - expects people to show in terms of embarrassing statements or shameful acts. And that is spinning it away and finally being forced to apologize, and then apologize again.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

There's so much stuff in America that is very shameful. It's stuff that I can't endorse, but I still perform there.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.