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Shame: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 3.

Subsec. VI. Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.— DRYDEN — Cymon and Iphigenia. L. 133.

The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is-to die.— GOLDSMITH — Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. XXIV.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. VI. L. 350.

Pope's trans. And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die.— JUVENAL — Satire IX. Harvey's trans.

Male parta, male dilabuntur. What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.— CICERO — Philippica. II. 27.

Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti. To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.— CICERO — De Officiis. 1. 28.

Omnia Græcè! Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latinè. Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. VI. 187.

Næ simul pudere quod non oportet cœperit; quod oportet non pudebit. As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.— LIVY — Annales. XXXIV. 4.

Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniæ vel frugalitatis. The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.— LIVY — Annales. XXXIV. 4.

Pudet hæc opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli. I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled.— OVID — Metamorphoses. I. 758.

Maggior difetto men vergogna lava. Less shame a greater fault would palliate.— DANTE — Inferno. XXX. 142.