Ambrose Bierce Quotes

“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”

“She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she used love as an excuse.”

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

“I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.”

“Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it”

“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us...The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?"-Salvian”

“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”

“Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that.”

“Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince."So that I may forget," replied the tippler."Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him."Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head."Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him."Ashamed of drinking!”

“They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.”