“Blue FaceDisgusting tasteFlush itShush itCold disgrace”
“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail”
“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
“...if it had to be shame, then let it be shame; if it had to be disgrace, then let it be disgrace; if it had to be degradation, then let it be degradation--the worse the better!”
“A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.” She would not miss this place.”
“Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.”