Famous quotes containing the word ashamed:
“Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (18641929)
“Mad about the boy,
I know its stupid to be mad about the boy,
Im so ashamed of it
But must admit
The sleepless nights Ive had about the boy.
On the Silver Screen
He melts my foolish heart in every single scene.”
—Noël Coward (18991973)
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