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

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

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

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

Common sense hides shame.

Common sense hides shame.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of read more

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

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

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

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.