A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought
not, she will not be ashamed read more

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought
not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
[Lat., Nae simul pudere quod non oportet coeperit; quod oportet
non pudebit.]

O shame, where is thy blush?

O shame, where is thy blush?

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that read more

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

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

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

The guilty catch themselves

The guilty catch themselves

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.