Shameful

Famous quotes containing the word shameful:

“The example of Alexander’s chastity has not made so many continent as that is his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)