Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.

Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.

Shame is pride's cloak.

Shame is pride's cloak.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of read more

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of
our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience,
just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

The guilty catch themselves

The guilty catch themselves

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,
And each by turns his aching heart assails.

Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,
And each by turns his aching heart assails.