Top 100 Quotes About Embarrassment
#1. To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
John Leonard
#2. For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
Amy Davidson
#3. I grabbed my napkin and managed to pretend to sneeze which had the added effect of covering up most of my face which was surely completely beet red with embarrassment at this point. Yeah, I was classy and suave like that. Jesus Christ, Angel, get a grip!
Diana Rowland
#4. The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.
Simon Jenkins
#5. Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.
Marco Roth
#6. 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
#7. For a rational, modern mind, talk of the supernatural can be disturbing - an embarrassment.
James Martin
#8. Arousal and embarrassment warred for space inside her, but she managed both with equal aplomb - she was nothing if not an excellent multitasker. How long have you been there?
Jill Shalvis
#9. What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I!
Charles Dickens
#10. Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.
Amy Poehler
#11. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
Bill Brandt
#12. For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.
Jason Segel
#13. It was funny to run into girls I knew after the movie came out because they would say, 'I saw you on 'Magic Mike,' but there was this look of embarrassment. It was very cute.
Adam Rodriguez
#14. Falco's eyes widened in fake shock. "Well, then perhaps I should ask for a tour of the house." He grinned, clearly relishing Cass's embarrassment. "Can we start with your bedroom?
Fiona Paul
#15. Raif spared me the embarrassment of making me wear one of his Lord of the Rings outfits.
Amanda Bonilla
#16. What is it with men? Are they totally incapable of faithfulness?" "Depends. It's a character issue more than a sexual one." Nic closed her eyes in embarrassment and swallowed a groan. She'd forgotten about her visitor. Lovely. Just lovely.
Emily March
#17. It's nearly full dark. We should go."
"We? I thought you were going to leave me alone."
"I lied," Jace said without a shred of embarrassment.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Laurence J. Peter
#19. I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!
Bette Davis
#20. One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
James Payn
#21. Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.
Jim Wallis
#22. I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
Ishmael Reed
#23. It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back: everything that is said is said underneath, where, if it does matter, to acknowledge it is to let on to your embarrassment. That I love you makes me want to run and hide.
Jenny Boully
#24. Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Chris Matthews
#25. I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.
Paul Bloom
#26. I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.
Mark E. Smith
#27. I've travelled to many states and seen the suffering in people's eyes I've visited communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana and Ohio whose manufacturing jobs have literally disappeared. An embarrassment to our country and it's horrible.
Donald Trump
#28. If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.
Stephen Fry
#29. I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.
Beth Ditto
#30. I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#31. I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?
Elizabeth Bishop
#32. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
#33. The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#34. One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.
Tom Price
#35. I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
Deb Caletti
#36. Something like a small blue supernova flared for a moment in the depths of his eyesockets. It dawned on Mort that, with some embarrassment and complete lack of expertise, Death was trying to wink.
Terry Pratchett
#37. I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.
Brian Bosworth
#38. But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
Christian Bale
#39. 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
#40. Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do.
Ryan Robbins
#41. Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
Jean De La Bruyere
#42. Remember what writer Colin Marshall says: Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide.
Austin Kleon
#43. One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
Alfred Doblin
#44. I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
Derek Bok
#45. I was afraid the staff would laugh at me - and as frightened as I was, the thought of derision frightened me even more. In retrospect, it was a life-threatening deception, somewhat along the lines of hiding recurrent chest pains from one's cardiologist from embarrassment. Nearly
Elyn R. Saks
#46. I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.
Howard Fast
#47. Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.
Seth MacFarlane
#48. So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
Josephus Daniels
#49. 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
#50. Why can I not stop talking? Livia watched as Cole set the dripping candles on a small table. If I die of embarrassment, they can have my funeral right here.
Debra Anastasia
#51. One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter's ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.
David Nicholls
#53. I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
Eric Fellner
#54. This is Mina. She was homeless. I found her. I'm keeping her. She loves me. So we're getting married. And I died. Embarrassment seeped out of me like oozing slime.
Belle Aurora
#55. I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.
Johannes Rau
#56. Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Theodor Adorno
#57. My face filled with the warm glow of embarrassment preventing me from smiling back so I turned and ran away.
Nicci Greene
#58. There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way
Andrew Bird
#59. 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
#60. In the hollow steel-lined bin, my unfortunate eruption resonated such that it would have humiliated me if my first concern had been social acceptance. My first concern, however, was survival. At the moment, I didn't have the capacity for embarrassment because terror filled me.
Dean Koontz
#61. My face heated with embarrassment. The crossbreed member of Keystone - formerly known as the Shadow, a merciless killer - is now on the hunt for linens. Viktor
Dannika Dark
#62. How can the world end in a giant fury of biblical proportions yet still leave room for embarrassment?
Susan Ee
#63. Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of general embarrassment about himself in which he floated with log-like calm.
Evelyn Waugh
#64. I have this thing that whenever the slightest embarrassment happens I go bright red. Not in the attractive English-rose way; in the way that someone might glance over and stay 'Oh, how strange. A tomato with the body of a girl.
Liz Bankes
#65. We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers ... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.
Frank Delaney
#66. A grown man who can shed tears without embarrassment is like a yogi who has learned to expel toxic matter from his body by consciously speeding up the peristaltic rhythm. He can eliminate many of life's poisons
Christopher Isherwood
#67. My fear is that he'll forget me," she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.
Donna Lynn Hope
#68. Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.
Sarah Addison Allen
#69. She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.
Kevin Hearne
#70. People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith.
Roger Scruton
#71. A murder is a challenge, an embarrassment, to the inner life of the dead one, almost a dishonor, like other violent events that may come upon you without warning. It is not certain that you may not have in some careless or driven way chosen to put yourself in the path of a murderer.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#72. The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.
Chris Pratt
#73. Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Camille Paglia
#74. The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
Scott Adams
#75. Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.
Neal Barnard
#76. It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
Andrew Weil
#77. The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Sid Vicious
#78. The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
Luc De Clapiers
#79. My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.
Carrie Fisher
#81. A farmer who neglects to sow ordinary seeds only loses the crop, whereas anyone who forgets to sow seeds of a crop that has already been harvested twelve months before risks disturbing the entire fabric of causality, not to mention acute embarrassment.
Terry Pratchett
#82. Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals.
Dan Simmons
#83. 12 Things To Ditch For A Great Day
Blame
Guilt
Worry
Regret
Resentment
Entitlement
Self-pity
Laziness
Negative attitude
Fear of embarrassment
Urge to one-up others
Your comfort zone
Charles F. Glassman
#84. I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment.
Julian Cope
#85. I am blushing. I read enough erotica that my mother would probably die of embarrassment, and yet now I'm blushing in front of "Delilah Daniels". Please let the earth open up and swallow me whole.
Asha King
#86. Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
Michael Crapo
#87. 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
#88. To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. In extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.
Fred Vargas
#92. I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.
Cheyenne Jackson
#93. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#94. When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#95. Embarrassment wasn't what I had in mind. Put it this way: I'm not really interested in any of them wanking off to the sounds of us fucking in the next room.
Georgia Cates
#96. The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.
Jim Brown
#97. 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
#99. Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
Michel Faber
#100. Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.
Susan Piver
