Shameful

Famous quotes containing the word shameful:

“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)

“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

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