Shameful

Famous quotes containing the word shameful:

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

“That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)