Shameful

Famous quotes containing the word shameful:

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

“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)

“... there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)