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

“I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”

“They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named:Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed.”

“If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, 'Sex is nothing to be ashamed of,' they may mean 'the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of'. If they mean that, I think they are wrong. I think it is everything to be ashamed of. There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.”

“We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. ”

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”