“As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.” MenLongRightsWrittenRegardShameSlaveHumiliationCharter Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think.” ThinkingShouldBookMightSufferingWrittenGainsMy FamilyShameWorthyPublishing Book:An Instance of the Fingerpost Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost
“O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.” DeathWinningNamesWrittenBedShameBlameWrathBurialSanctify Author:Herman Melville
“God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.” HeartMayWrittenTearsJudgmentShameRecitingJudgment Day Author:W. H. Auden
“I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.” PeopleIfsLongStillsEnoughSongRealizingRecordsWrittenHeardShameExcited Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanWarWholeMomentsTodayUsedLyingSunWrittenBrokenRevolutionConsequenceDiedTwentiesShameAccidentsMaking LoveDelaySixteenContraceptivesScorching Book:Simple Passion Source: Simple Passion
“But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.” ThinkingMenViolenceWrittenModernShameViolentMovieExploitationThoroughViolent Man Author:Julie Taymor
“It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.” FeelsEvilCausesHoursLosesWrittenFoolMoralityShameNeighborParadiseOne Hour Book:Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer Source: Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer
“You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.” BookEndsDarkNovelFireWrittenShameOver YouRealisingBubblesCathedrals Author:Michael Cunningham