Discomfiture Quotes

#1. I felt a distinct pleasure in passing on my own discomfiture.

Agatha Christie

#2. I'm interested in continuing our conversation about the discomfiture I picked up in the mainstream media with one particular element of this debate. It was this discomfort with a law against adultery.

Mike Pence

#3. I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil

Evelyn Waugh

#4. The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I can't help but wonder, if 50 SHADES OF GREY is supposed to be sexually empowering to women how come the girl isn't the one holding the whip?

Evangeline Ravencraft

#6. Blame someone else, that's always your first instinct. And if you can't blame someone else, then start claiming the problem isn't a problem anyway. Rewrite the rules, shift the goalposts.

Julian Barnes

#7. The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way.

David Levithan

#8. The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#9. This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Charles R. Swindoll

#10. When you have to make a choice, think of the impact your decision may make on your calling

Sunday Adelaja

#11. I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

Chaka Fattah

#12. We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#13. Seeing you with a face would be weird. Do you think you'd have hair?"
"Oh yes. Hair is a must."
"Would you have a moustache?"
"Why would I have a moustache?"
"I'm not sure. What about your ears?"
"I'd have ears too, yes."
"I can't imagine you with ears.

Derek Landy