shame

No, it's probably a shame to stir the dough after taking it out of the oven! What is planted is what is baked.

Panteleimon Kulish

On January 31, 1944, I was brought to the Kremlin. There I was cut to pieces and the bloodied parts of my soul were scattered for shame and slaughter in all the gatherings. Everything that was evil, unkind, vengeful, trampled and defiled me. I held on for a year and fell. My heart could not bear the burden of lies and evil.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

I don’t object to seeing men weep over their sins. I don’t know why it is not manly for a man to weep over his sins. It is more manly than to trifle with salvation, and make light of serious things. A great many men seem to be ashamed to shed tears over their sins.

—D. L. Moody

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

—Charles Dickens

If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed — all there is cold, cold as ice.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The more you boast, the more shame you bring upon yourself.

—Leo Tolstoy

Oh Lord, when I think how little I have done, I am ashamed and confounded, and I would fain honour God more than I have yet done.

—William Wilberforce

My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.

—Søren Kierkegaard

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

—Thomas Aquinas

Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

—Nikolai Gogol

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

—Seneca

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

—Oscar Wilde

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

—Plato

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

—Socrates

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

—Cicero

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

—Cicero

We should confess Christ constantly. We should not be ashamed of our Lord and King. We should let people know that we are on His side. In the home, in the church, at our work, and at our play, we should let others know where we stand.

—R. A. Torrey

The upright soul, though he may be drawn to sin, yet he cannot reflect upon his sin without shame and sorrow, which plainly shows it to be an involuntary surprise.

—John Flavel

Shame on us Christian people for thinking so much like worldlings and using the foolish methods of philosophy when we are dealing with the everlasting and eternal God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I don’t object to seeing men weep over their sins. I don’t know why it is not manly for a man to weep over his sins. It is more manly than to trifle with salvation, and make light of serious things. A great many men seem to be ashamed to shed tears over their sins.

—D. L. Moody

I’m ashamed to recall how often I failed to live according to my conscience and instead submitted to foolish customs and rules that everyone else accepts.

—Leo Tolstoy