Embarrassment Quotes

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

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?

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

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.

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

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

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

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

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

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.

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

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?

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.

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

My colleagues thought I was an embarrassment because I was talking about mind, body, spirit. So I was called a quack. I was called a fraud, which I initially resented, but then I got used to it.

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.