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When everyone is doing it, it takes courage to put on a hair shirt.”

Lord Patten said there was a need to "put on a hair shirt" and acknowledged that several other executive payments were "a problem," in addition to the £1m-plus settlement to former Deputy Director General Mark Byford, which the committee focused on.

"I don't think that even though the state is in bad times we must put on a hair shirt and never enthusiastically grab at something that might give a lot of pleasure to some people," said Representative Andrew McCall Norton, a Republican from Colchester who voted yes.

I feel like I've been wearing a hair shirt all day.

Do you think he would like me better if I wore a hair shirt and never smiled?

"I am not interested in wearing a hair shirt," he added.

My only complaint is that you have to wear a hair shirt over calling the paper "liberal."

At every competition he showed how hard it was playing while wearing a hair shirt under his sponsored roll neck.

He fell silent and then said sadly, "I've worn a hair shirt ever since."

Stay at home, wear a hair shirt, feel smug, sound off about it endlessly on here.

You don't have to wear a hair shirt and dig a well to give back when you travel.

Must we watch the World No. 1 wear a hair shirt every Sunday?

You don't have to wear a hair shirt to think that some auction prices are grossly inflated.

If I went around wearing a hair shirt, they would say I was too damaged to lead.

Never eating meat, he fasted much, wore a hair shirt and a chain around his waist.

"I've been wandering in the desert, eating a lot of locusts, wearing a hair shirt," he said.

“Instead of wearing a hair shirt, they were partying like crazy.”

The same source claimed Reginald wore a hair shirt under his episcopal vestments.

He wore a hair shirt beneath the simple robes of a Dominican friar and was often seen in bare feet.

"In other words, " he jokes, "I'm not wearing a hair shirt."

I believe that Hugo wore a hair shirt and ended up his days on his knees in a monk's cell.

He was elevated to become bishop of Vannes but continued to wear a hair shirt, practise asceticism, and minister to the poor.

He wore a hair shirt and slept very little, so as to be able to pray all his offices and rosaries.

Living by alms, fasting on bread and water, wearing a hair shirt, he remained kneeling every day for six or seven hours in prayer.

I'd as soon wear a hair shirt," Rod growled; but he wriggled into the iron vest. "

Father Lukas wears a hair shirt.

He wore a hair shirt and heavy iron chain, and was in the habit of wearing a cord tied below the knee.

The real More wore a hair shirt to curb his own lust and, it is sometimes said, took excessive delight in torturing heretics.