80 Shameless Quotes

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Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. — John Grisham

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. — Juvenal

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest — William Faulkner

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame. — Plautus

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. — Brené Brown

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tell the truth and shame the devil. — Francois Rabelais

Speak the truth and shame the devil. — Proverbs

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. — Fanny Burney

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. — George Bernard Shaw

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. — Rod Steiger

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. — Livy

There is no shame in black beauty. — Lupita Nyong'o

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. — Frank Lautenberg

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift

Short Shameless Quotes

  • Do not be shy of one who is shameless. — Albanian Proverbs
  • We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Steve Jobs
  • The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
  • Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful. — William H. Macy
  • Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion. — Vishwas Mudagal
  • Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend. — Gus Van Sant
  • Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. — Thomas Sowell
  • All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. — Tacitus
  • Thanks [Donald] Trump for exposing evangelicals as 'shameless hypocrites'. — Bill Maher

Being Shameless Quotes

... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods. — Brassai

I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed. — Bhartrhari

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share. — Quentin Crisp

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit. — Pablo Neruda

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense. — Buddha

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself. — M. F. K. Fisher

I hate that you don't have the insight. I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out. I hate that you don't even seem to have the slightest self-respect. And also the fact that you used San as your "heart-wrenching" excuse to return. Back to this hell-hole. — Cho Gun-woo

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. — Margaret Atwood

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature. — Pablo Neruda

In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable. — R. H. Hutton

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More Shameless Quotes

Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance. — Maxim Gorky

The pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth. It is the only animal that invites its friends to have sex with its mate. In America, most people consume pork. Many times after dance parties, they have swapping of wives; many say 'you sleep with my wife and I will sleep with your wife.' If you eat pigs then you behave like pigs. — Zakir Naik

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. — Ken Mehlman

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy. — Thomas Sowell

How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. — Pope Pius XII

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists. — Brigitte Bardot

I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning. — Samuel Johnson

The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one. — Michiko Kakutani

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. — Mike Pence

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. — Kazimir Malevich

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. — Charles Baudelaire

Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write. — Karl Ove Knausgard

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him. If you seek Him, you are absent from Him. If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him. If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him. — Ibn Ata Allah

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. — Kurt Vonnegut

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. — W. E. B. Du Bois

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless. — Elizabeth von Arnim

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Walter Isaacson

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats - so transparent that they ought to deceive no one. — Lysander Spooner

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. — Aeschylus

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it. — Jorge Luis Borges

Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart. — Vita Sackville-West

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium. — Aretaeus of Cappadocia

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share. — Homer

Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. — E. M. Cioran

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. — Theodor Adorno

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment. — John Carroll

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns. — Beth Ditto

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