Embarrassment Quotes
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Embarrassment Quotes & Sayings
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The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
— Douglas Engelbart
What connections and experiences have I missed because I'm either remembering a former embarrassment or fearing a new one?
— Emily P. Freeman
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
— Lance Armstrong
Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.
— Portia De Rossi
Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.
— Cassandra Clare
Oh God! I wore granny panties today. I didn't think anyone would see them." She covers her eyes with her hand in embarrassment.
— Gisele Walko
Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
— Michel Faber
This was truly advanced WASP: how to comfort a wronged wife and mother without acknowledging any misdeeds done or embarrassment caused by loved ones.
— Maggie Shipstead
All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The outside air had altered her mood, from an unsettled elation to something within reach of embarrassment, even shame.
— Alice Munro
He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
— Rick Riordan
There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.
— Charlene Weir
I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.
— Beth Ditto
We held each other's hands and laughed with feigned embarrassment that gradually took hold and became real.
— Miranda July
I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.
— Vanora Bennett
For a rational, modern mind, talk of the supernatural can be disturbing - an embarrassment.
— James Martin
Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
— Janet Morris
So this is what it's like to have so much desire for something it clouds all fear and embarrassment.
— Julie Cross
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.
— Gillian Flynn
If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.
— Brent Weeks
Jasper glances sideways with mild canine embarrassment.
— Peter Heller
It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.
— Craig T. Nelson
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
— Laurence J. Peter
Yes. And also, if it's okay by you, I'd like to shut up now ... Or possibly just go somewhere and swallow my face.
— Lesley Livingston
You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
— Justin Trudeau
When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.
— Michael R. French
Remember what writer Colin Marshall says: Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide.
— Austin Kleon
Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.
— Amy Poehler
The hallmark of embarrassment is that when we do something embarrassing, we don't feel alone.
— Brene Brown
Mae's first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
— Anne Lamott
I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
— Caitlin Moran
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
— John Leonard
Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.
— Charlie Higson
I was doing what I have done for most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves.
— Elizabeth Strout
I don't want to be my limitations. I don't want to be my pain. I don't want to be my embarrassment.
— Kim Holden
I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.
— Howard Fast
Nagasaki was an embarrassment to the art of war
— Don DeLillo
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
— Charlotte Bingham
Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.
— Susan Piver
As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.
— Christopher Hitchens
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
— Alfred Doblin
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
— Gail Sheehy
I will serenade you from the street, Maggie Windham. I will be so callow, you will marry me to save me from embarrassment.
— Grace Burrowes
Embarrassment thickened in his throat like phlegm.
— Ross Macdonald
I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
— Callan McAuliffe
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
— Leonard Cohen
It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.
— Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
My little ankle-strap sandals curled with embarrassment for her.
— Christopher Hitchens
Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.
— Stephen King
I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
— Deb Caletti
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
— Carl Andre
Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
— Elizabeth Perkins
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
— Terry Pratchett
Nobody ever dies of an indignity.
— Elizabeth Bowen
There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.
— Fran Lebowitz
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
— Julian Barnes
I put on embarrassment in the same way I put on Liliya's dress. It clings to my skin.
— Sharon Cameron
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
— Wilson Mizner
I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.
— Ricky Gervais
What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.
— Marilynne Robinson
The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.
— Ben Morgan
Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquestthat a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment. — Neal Shusterman
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— Greg Iles
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
— Billy Bragg
Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.
— Robert B. Cialdini
A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.
— Joseph Bottum
