Shameful

Famous quotes containing the word shameful:

“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”
—Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)