Top 100 Quotes About Cringe
#1. Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Holmes
#2. Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.
Grant Morrison
#3. I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
Steve Toltz
#4. I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.
Jason Isbell
#5. I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.
Thomas Jane
#6. Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
Heraclitus
#7. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines. Sleat gave a lazy
Patrick Rothfuss
#8. Janie: Did you ever sell drugs?
Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh ... rather troubled back then.
Janie: Why did you stop?
Cabel: Got busted, and Captain made me a better deal. Janie: So you've been a narc since then? Cabel: I cringe at your terminology.
Lisa McMann
#9. I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.
Michael Leunig
#10. Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
Oona Chaplin
#11. I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it's because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn't want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.
Deepika Padukone
#12. If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it.
T.C. Slonaker
#13. I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.
Emma Watson
#14. There are a few rules in investigations, and one is to never cringe at the person's appearance that you're about to pump for info.
Ruth Bainbridge
#15. I look down and cringe as I see Lucian's modified boxer shorts. "My panties are too tight," I say defensively. "It was either these or nothing at all." "And you picked the first option?" She shakes her head. "When in doubt, go commando.
Sydney Landon
#16. It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again? Really? I never set out with that intention.'
Stephen Merchant
#17. The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
David Lyons
#18. I've seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.
Roman Payne
#19. You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.
Jennifer Connelly
#20. Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.
Elizabeth Hurley
#21. Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
Idris Elba
#22. Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
Charlotte Rampling
#23. I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.
Ricky Schroder
#24. I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.
Lyle Lovett
#25. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
James Russell Lowell
#26. I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
Sheryl Crow
#27. There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.
Robert Palmer
#28. There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
Margaret Haddix
#29. At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
Dan Jenkins
#30. You can't knock somebody for how they got into the business. I'm sure I'm gonna look back at 'Roswell' and some of my first movies and I'm gonna cringe.
Colin Hanks
#31. I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being ... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
Madonna Ciccone
#32. He cringes every time she tries to help him or even touch him, but he can't tell her to stop because it's easier for Max to cringe and suffer than speak up
Matthew Dicks
#33. Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.
Ada Limon
#34. Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.
Voltaire
#35. Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.
Bradford Cox
#37. I talked to some of Donald Trump supporters and they, say, yeah, sometimes he makes me cringe, but I still like him, and I still think he's the right thing for America.
Don Gonyea
#38. If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.
Margaret Atwood
#39. Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
John Mason Brown
#40. For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.
Anne Sexton
#42. Granted the dialogue is unrealistic and cringe-worthy and the dude is a crude alpha with a cock the size of a Subway sandwich, but hey, no one wants to read about pencil dicks either. The
Karina Halle
#43. When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
Rachel Roy
#44. It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.
Michael Kiwanuka
#45. I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.
Peter Dinklage
#46. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result of your shame, it is conscience. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result of how people think of you, it is ego. Which of the two is more prevalent in your life?
Laura Bates
#47. 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
#48. Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
William Faulkner
#49. The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#51. It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
Jean Lorrain
#52. Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.
Simphiwe Dana
#53. I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#54. I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
#55. I wasn't part of the world that cringed at such things. And with a smile, I realized that I was of that dark ilk that makes others cringe. Slowly and with great pleasure, I laughed.
Anne Rice
#56. The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you'll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.
Embeth Davidtz
#57. The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.
Markus Zusak
#58. I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.
Alice McDermott
#59. A dog that has been beaten for years will die if it is thrown out in the street to fend for itself. It will cringe in corners, not trusting a soul but always hoping for some kindness. The one emotion it will not feel is relief at its freedom.
Toni Maguire
#60. I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#61. Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#62. It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
Ben Fountain
#63. Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.
Kalup Linzy
#64. In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.
Chris Carmack
#65. Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
Lana Del Rey
#66. I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#67. This thought didn't make me cringe like most teenagers would have.
Tiffany King
#68. I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#69. I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.
John Simm
#70. I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
Steve Martin
#71. Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#72. Bitch please, your legs get spread more than peanut butter," Nicole snaps at Tash and I want to laugh. "Well I never!" Tash whines back and her voice is so grating I cringe. "There are three words no one ever thought they'd hear out of your mouth.
Jordan Marie
#73. To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.
Bryan Adams
#74. I used to look so immature, like a young man without self-confidence. There was one particular light blue, shiny cape outfit I wore that still makes me cringe.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#75. Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
Vivienne Westwood
#76. My thanks, m'lady." He reached for the bowl and sniffed the pottage, followed by a cringe.
She bit her fingernail. "Oh dear, I'm afraid I'm not much of a cook, either."
"Yer scones are right delicious." He took a bite. "Mm. This is no' near as bad as the last batch.
Amy Jarecki
#77. The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.
Jean De La Bruyere
#78. When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.
Benjamin Cohen
#79. Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
Julie Christie
#80. I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over ...
Tori Amos
#81. Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?"
His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?"
"Yes it is.
Ilona Andrews
#82. As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.
Tim Robbins
#83. Ravens were omnivores and ate an array of tidbits including insects, seeds, berries, meat, and carrion, the dead flesh of animals, which made her cringe.
Lauren Quick
#84. The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
Zola Jesus
#85. I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.
Patrick Rothfuss
#87. You're too sensitive' victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.
Renee Fredrickson
#88. Romantic Suspense, we love you so.
You make us cringe, and give us hope.
Sometimes we lust,
sometimes we cry,
But in the end,
you make us sigh.
Maureen A. Miller
#89. I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.
Kathleen Hanna
#91. Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
Fiona Apple
#92. I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
Larry David
#93. I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg ... I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood.
Henry McNeal Turner
#94. I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.
John Hodgman
#95. Parents love their children. We might not always approve of the things you do, we might not like your friends, and cringe at some of the choices you make, but that doesn't change our love.
Debbie Macomber
#96. I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
#97. I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.
James Ellroy
#98. I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of ... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.
Christopher Walken
#99. I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.
Jude Law
#100. Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.
I hate midnight.
Erica Cameron
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