“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
So What The Fuss
Song lyrics, A Time To Love (2005)
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.”
Todd Strasser (1950) American author of young-adult and middle grade novels
Source: Count Your Blessings
“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”
Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist
Source: The Naming
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
a computer-generated Oliphaunt steps on Moore, crushing him
In a humorous sendup of Moore's previous acceptance speech for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Oscars. Moore himself delivered the lines in the opening act of the 2004 Oscars, while standing in front of a greenscreen which had the Battle of the Pelennor Fields scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King playing on it; a battle which was, itself, literally fictitious. (23 March 2004)
2004
“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
“My feelings for you shame me into silence.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) Soviet poet
Stanley Kunitz (trans.) Story Under Full Sail (New York: Doubleday, 1974) p. 20.
Anthony Weiner (1964) American politician
Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_GRkMZJn4 on the floor of the House, on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (July 29, 2010)