"Sense of shame" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... obvious indifference to the utmost penalty that military rigor could inflict on all his treason to the cause of liberty and America. More than once he felt prompted to disturb the repose of the peddler by taunts and revilings; but the discipline he was under, and a secret sense of shame at the brutality of the act, ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... 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 ...
— Story of Orestes - A Condensation of the Trilogy • Richard G. Moulton
... I loved the boy, and I could not cloud His soul with a sense of shame:— 'Twere an evil thing, thought I, to blast A sinless orphan's name! So he grew to be a man of wealth, And ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 396, Saturday, October 31, 1829. • Various
... able to rise above the terrible sense of shame which completely overwhelmed me at first, at the thought that any man—above all a man who knew me well—should dare to write me ...
— The Upas Tree - A Christmas Story for all the Year • Florence L. Barclay
... good gifts bestowed in mercy on all His creatures. The mother's share in this gift and duty can be observed by, and simply explained to, the child from its earliest years; it comes then with no shock, no sense of shame, but as a type of joy and gladness, an image of that holiest of all relations, the Eternal ...
— Youth and Sex • Mary Scharlieb and F. Arthur Sibly
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