"Sense of shame" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just when my hand dropped into my lap, but before I knew it my eyes were fixed on that great whirling picture, and my sense of shame was lost in a storm of music. All these glittering women were standing in rows, regular as the pickets on a door-yard fence, while one girl, with a wreath of green leaves and red berries on her head, was whirling on one toe round and round, till she seemed to be a dozen girls whizzing ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
... flickering vitality by every exposure to cold,—her lonely days and nights,—the interminable sewing, that now, for her own reasons, she would trust to no hands but her own,—conscious incapacity to be what all the women about her were, stirring, active, hardy housekeepers,—a vague sense of shame, and a great dread of the future,—her comfortless and motherless condition,—slowly, but surely, like frost, and wind, and rain, and snow, beat on this frail blossom, and it went with the rest. June roses were laid against her dark hair and in her fair hands, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... this light! Adm. Base is thy thought, unworthy of a man! Pher. The triumph is not thine to entomb my age. Adm. Die when thou wilt, inglorious wilt thou die. {770} Pher. Thy ill report will not affect me dead. Adm. Alas, that age should outlive sense of shame! Pher. But lack of age's wisdom slew her youth. Adm. Begone, and suffer me to entomb my dead. Pher. I go: no fitter burier than thyself Her murderer! Look for reckoning from her friends: Acastus is no man, if his hand fails Dearly to avenge on thee his sister's ...
— Story of Orestes - A Condensation of the Trilogy • Richard G. Moulton
... of absurdity to expect a perfect party or a perfect assembly. For large bodies are far more likely to err than individuals. The passions are inflamed by sympathy; the fear of punishment and the sense of shame are diminished by partition. Every day we see men do for their faction what they would die rather than ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... with as much mourning as he could muster at such short notice, was waiting on the quay. His weather-beaten face was not quite so ruddy as usual, and Fraser, with a strong sense of shame, fancied, as the old man clambered aboard the schooner, that his movements were slower than ...
— A Master Of Craft • W. W. Jacobs
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