269 Quotations with Shame.
- 161. Janet Malcolm: The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Whe ...

- 162. Plato: The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of al ...

- 163. Noam Chomsky: The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray ...

- 164. Gotthold Lessing: The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

- 165. Sharon Begley: The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

- 166. Fay Weldon: The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, ...

- 167. Fay Weldon: The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, ...

- 168. Albert Camus: The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of ...

- 169. William Hazlitt: The public have neither shame or gratitude.

- 170. Catherine Drinker Bowen: The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured th ...

- 171. The Holy Bible: The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother ...

- 172. James Laver: The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years be ...

- 173. Thomas Hobbes: The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, ...

- 174. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do thin ...

- 175. Norman Mailer: The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything h ...

- 176. Milovan Djilas: The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for ...

- 177. William Blake: Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper c ...

- 178. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuat ...

- 179. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they n ...

- 180. William Harvey: There is a lust in man no charm can tame: of loudly publishing his neighbor's sh ...

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