If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
—George Bernard Shaw
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
—Shelley Winters
I have spent a good many years… being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
—Stephen King
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
—Mark Twain
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
—Will Rogers
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
—John Adams
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
—Tertullian
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. It's a scent to them, a smell.
—Tori Amos
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.
—Alice Walker
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
—Craig Thompson in Blankets
There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
—William Langland