But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.