Shameful

Famous quotes containing the word shameful:

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

“Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“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)