Embarrass Quotes

#1. We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

Paul Prudhomme

#2. On my way out I didn't look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn't look at him because I didn't believe he was a terrorist, but maybe I didn't look at him because I didn't want to embarrass him.

Assaf Gavron

#3. Parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents
we didn't rear them
and yet we do.

Peg Bracken

#4. When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

Irvine Welsh

#5. For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#6. Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Peter Akinola

#7. I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.

Ellie Kemper

#8. I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

Harry Triguboff

#9. I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself.

Ken Jeong

#10. Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

Howard Raiffa

#11. Let's start again. Hi, I'm Samirah al-Abbas... You can call me Sam. Everyone does. I'll be your Valkyrie this evening. Pleased to meet you properly... I will now escort you to dinner." She forced a smile. "If you embarrass me, I'll be the first to kill you.

Rick Riordan

#12. Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle; and so on down to swallows at twilight who scare the hell out of me. But pigeons have absolutely no effect on me.

James Thurber

#13. The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.

Glenn Greenwald

#14. I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

Iggy Pop

#15. You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Jessica Mitford

#16. My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrass for a moment but not asking a question is embarrasing for a life time

Haruki Murakami

#17. I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.

Mia Sara

#18. Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family.

Erica Jong

#19. I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.

Becki Newton

#20. You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

Nathan Fillion

#21. Joe Biden once again denied stories that he will be replaced on the ticket in 2012. He says he will continue to embarrass President Obama for another four years.

Jay Leno

#22. You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

Anna Kendrick

#23. In the end, we forget the details of our lives that embarrass us or are too painful. We just lie back and allow ourselves to float along calmly over the deep waters, with our eyes closed.

Patrick Modiano

#24. I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

Zoe Kazan

#25. What looks good now is guaranteed to embarrass you twenty years down the line, which is, of course, the whole problem with fashion.

David Sedaris

#26. I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

Elizabeth Pena

#27. I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

Clay Aiken

#28. Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Tom Clancy

#29. I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.

Mike Tyson

#30. I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Sparky Anderson

#31. Hello and welcome to this collection of calls put together specifically to embarrass the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now you'll hear us tackle the very pillars of science: physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics and, of course, cream rinse.

Tom Magliozzi

#32. I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

Liane Balaban

#33. We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

Sam Harris

#34. Comedians are people who embarrass themselves in style.

A.D. Posey

#35. I've been trying not to be a big baby by insisting on holding his hand in front of the angels, but the urge is strong. I don't want to embarrass him even when he's unconscious. But now that the others are gone, I sit beside him and hold his hand. It's warm, and I pull it to my chest to warm me up.

Susan Ee

#36. DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

Ambrose Bierce

#37. But he knew how to treat a woman with respect, to never demean or condescend or embarrass her in front of others.

Miranda Liasson

#38. Please come out so I can see your face," Darcy said.
There was a smile in Thorn's voice when he said, "I gave my jeans to Warrick. I'm no' shy, lass, but I doona want to embarrass Warrick.

Donna Grant

#39. Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.

Dan John

#40. Don't ever take a seven-year-old with you to a campaign dinner - they will embarrass you no end.

Ertharin Cousin

#41. Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

Robert Byrd

#42. I cry at everything. Simply to spite myself and embarrass myself.

Sylvia Plath

#43. It doesn't embarrass me one bit to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people.

Mike Huckabee

#44. Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won't embarrass us. We're working toward something much more important than that. We're actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ.

Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#45. On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.

Rik Mayall

#46. As an actor, I think sort of relish the chance to take a leap and sort of put yourself out there. You know, it's, like on any film, you just have to be willing to embarrass yourself, because otherwise you are not going to really reveal anything that you have. So I think it's exciting.

Daniel Radcliffe

#47. I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play ... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.

Joe Satriani

#48. The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#49. Beauty if you keep that up, I am goin' to embarrass myself like a schoolboy

Shyloh Morgan

#50. If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.

Anna Benson

#51. I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.

Tony Abbott

#52. Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

Adrian McKinty

#53. As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

David Nail

#54. Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

Peter Farrelly

#55. I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.

Jen Lancaster

#56. My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

Mavis Staples

#57. When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

Sam Harris

#58. But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

John Irving

#59. Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Tom Rachman

#60. At least it's really entertaining when I embarrass myself.

Lucas Till

#61. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. Fat

Neil Gaiman

#62. I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

Lisa Gardner

#63. I don't want to disappoint you. I don't want to let you down. And I don't want to embarrass you in front of the people you love.

Maya Banks

#64. The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee ...

Emily Dickinson

#65. I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.

Tahyna Tozzi

#66. The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

Harold H. Greene

#67. I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

Jenna Bush

#68. Maxims for Revolutionists TITLES Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

Anonymous

#69. Your situation does not embarrass God because He has solution.

T. B. Joshua

#70. It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

Rob Delaney

#71. The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Glenn Close

#72. The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.

Ray Bradbury

#73. I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

Mark Haddon

#74. Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Umberto Eco

#75. God visits suffering on innocent people of scope and scale that would even embarrass the most ambitious psychopath

Sam Harris

#76. No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us ... a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

Jean Rhys

#77. As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#78. There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Drew Barrymore

#79. Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

Leonardo Da Vinci

#80. Her hope was to embarrass me. Little does she know, I'm fluent in Asshole.

S.L. Jennings

#81. I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

Melissa McCarthy

#82. To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.

Samuel Johnson

#83. When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

Michael R. French

#84. There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

Tullian Tchividjian

#85. I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like ... I would definitely do that.

Jack White

#86. I can't stop them. Maybe I can embarrass them from time to time, cost the City some money, but what they're doing here is happening everywhere. We live in a police state and everybody supports the cops.

John Grisham

#87. Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business.

Jose Ferreira

#88. What you think is advanced would embarrass any of the masters of the old. Their capabilities rastly surpassed ours. We are a thousand years behind what they achieved.

Lauren Kate

#89. Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

Joan Claybrook

#90. The kids who thought of snappy things on the spot never had to worry about being fat or smart or pussies. You had to have a little meanness in you to do it. You had to be willing to embarrass other people sometimes.

Matthew Thomas

#91. I'm going to embarrass my kids - sex is important. Sex is really important.

Kyra Sedgwick

#92. Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty.

Kevin Hart

#93. There's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius

Rick Riordan

#94. Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.

Mike Norton

#95. We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.

Curt Weldon

#96. I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

Jim Leyland

#97. Sebastian simply shrugged once more, placed his hand over his mouth in an exaggerated motion, and then bowed, gesturing to Robert. Robert translated this as 'I'm deeply sorry, but having promised my cousin that I wouldn't say a word, I must now embarrass him as best as I can with gestures.

Courtney Milan

#98. The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election.

Nicky Hager

#99. My ambition is to not embarrass myself
which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

David Lipsky

#100. It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it.

Robert Longo