Embarrassment Quotes

Experience is the best school,Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,Offering only one lesson called Life,That you could only finish once you're dead!

~ Nelson M. Lubao

Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.

~ Jandy Nelson

I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but I’m too busy feeling desperate.

~ Marley Jacobs

How can Sophie hate Josh tonight when Friday morning she loved him?' I ask. What I mean is How can I have had such strong feelings for Ethan when now I don't know what I feel aside from overwhelming mortification?

~ Erin Mccahan

Hell hath no fury like a man embarrassed by a woman

~ J.r. Rain

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

~ Howard Jacobson

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

~ Gaston Leroux

It's embarrassing when a leader is clueless about his/her limitations (blind spots) while his/her people are well aware and making fun out of them.

~ Assegid Habtewold

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

~ Trevanian

If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

But she's not.' I told the man, 'Look at you! You're a vampire giving up beating hearts in favor of the woman you love. That's pretty-''Embarrassing?' he finished for me with a frown.I narrowed my eyebrows, 'Well, what I was going to say was admirable, but I guess that works too.

~ Emma Rose Kraus

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

~ Al Capp

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An' foolish notion.

~ Robert Burns

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone

~ Wilkie Collins

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

~ Leonard Cohen

True poetry is embarrassing.

~ Julien Torma

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I’m older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.

~ Margaret Atwood

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

~ Michael R. French

Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.

~ Charlie Higson

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

~ Michel Faber

There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there.

~ Michelle Orange

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.

~ David Foster Wallace

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

~ Amy Neftzger

George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

~ Mette Ivie Harrison

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

She settled into a sitting position, wincing. Oh, my poor rear end. I hope you appreciate what I went through to get here.Alain watched her anxiously. You have hurt your...My butt. Yeah. She returned his gaze, puzzled. I'll survive. Why are you blushing?Blushing? His face felt warm. What did that mean?Yes. Mari laughed. Does talking about my butt embarrass you? I'm sorry. It's nothing special.I... His face felt even warmer. I think it is.You do, huh? Where have you been all my life?This time he gave her a mystified look. I sent almost all of it inside a Mage Guild Hall. The one in Ihris. You know this.Mari laughed again.

~ Jack Campbell

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

~ George Eliot

Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her thoughts were flashing before his eyes.Finally Brett managed to pull away without consent of Bekka's lips. The confusion created a sloppy bite-a-juicy-peach sound. Everyone cringed.

~ Lisi Harrison

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

~ Jennifer Paynter

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

~ Seth Macfarlane

I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment.

~ Jesse L. Martin