Embarrassment Quotes

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. — Douglas Engelbart

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions. — Jonathan Ball

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

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment. — Marco Roth

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

A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoidedby following a single precept in life:
Do not lie — Sam Harris

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

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment — Miley Cyrus

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby. — Charlene Weir

While mistakes may be local, in today's connected world embarrassment is global — Gyan Nagpal

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down. — Robert Towne

This was one of those uncomfortable things Luna often said and which made Harry feel a squirming mixture of pity and embarrassment. Before — J.K. Rowling

The teachers never explained what this debt was all about, but we knew it was an embarrassment on the level of a national bedwetting. — Euny Hong

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

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time. — Meg Cabot

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

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed. — Gwyneth Paltrow

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

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment? — Jane Smiley

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I hope for the day when everyone can speak of God without embarrassment. — Paul Tillich

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment? — Tom Cruise

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

I want to be a barking public embarrassment as soon as possible. — Scott Lynch

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

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. — Paul Schrader

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

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade. — Ron Paul

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

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn

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

The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment. — Jim Brown

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth

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

Modifying one's vocabulary to avoid embarrassment is a universal human behaviour. — Gaston Dorren

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

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away. — Mason Cooley

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

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment. — Scott Adams

I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but I'm too busy feeling desperate. — Marley Jacobs

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

I blush so easily. Even when I'm not embarrassed, I blush. It's so embarrassing. — Brenda Hodnett

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability. — Tom Price

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be. — Marilynne Robinson

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it. — Terry Crews

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 conquest
that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment. — Neal Shusterman

the embarrassment — 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

You are hard to reveal your affection because you are afraid to see yourself dying in embarrassment — Na

You will be most effective when members can complement each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear. — Peter R. Scholtes