I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn’t tell anyone because I didn’t think it was ever a possibility. – Mickey Sumner
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. – John Owen
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well. – Louis Kronenberger
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. – Marquis de Sade
I was always the shame of the family – the one Yankee who was actually born in the North. – Randy Harrison
Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it’s a shame. – Ronnie Spector
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation. – Thomas Day
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. – Samuel Richardson