"Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.

He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.

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. A man will boast to one person of an action — say some sharp transaction in trade-^which he would be ashamed to own to another.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.

I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Neither dog nor man liked the look of my stick, however, and the matter fell through. Relations were strained after that, and further inquiries out of the question.

Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

...Stevens himself hating horses even more than dogs, rating the horse an unassailable first in loathing since though both were parasites, the dog at least had the grace to be a sycophant too; it at least fawned on you and so kept you healthily ashamed of the human race. But the real reason was, though neither the horse nor the dog ever forgot anything, the dog at least forgave you; and his, Stevens's, thought was that what the world needed was more forgiving.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Man is the only animal whose fear of embarrassment can overcome his instinct for self-preservation.

The other's glory seems to make him prey
to shame, as though reproached for coward fear.