Shameful

Famous quotes containing the word shameful:

“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.”
—Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655)

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

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