Neil Peart Quotes

The only shame is to have none.

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.

My behavior is humiliating.

The flip side of humiliation is pride.

I don't have no shame.

I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

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

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.