Humiliation Quotes

I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.

— Anonymous

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

— Alistair Cooke

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

— Judd Apatow

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

— Edmund Burke

“Humility fears not humiliation.”

— John Spencer Yantiss

“Life was that — humiliation, renunciation.”

— Virginia Woolf

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

— Robert Wyatt

With publicity comes humiliation.

— Tama Janowitz

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

— Richard Rohr

“On the island of tears, we were subjected to every kind of humiliation,”

— Edna O'Brien

“There's nothing like failure and humiliation to make you teachable.”

— Gary Heavin

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

— Min Jin Lee

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

— Penelope Keith

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

— B. B. King

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

— Michael Johnson

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people…

— Jean Genet

“I'd had my heart broken, you see. Fell in love with the wrong chap and he crushed me right down to the…

— Deanna Raybourn

I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love…

— Noel Coward

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

— Mike Aquilina

“you have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them? Your pride…

— Emily Brontë

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a…

— Jan Smuts

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the…

— Charles Eisenstein

Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn’t resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“All at once I am so tired of this-of the constant threat of humiliation and pain, the fear of exposure, of trying…

— Christina Baker Kline

When you're from a background where you've seen your mum beaten up in front of you, you're a dysfunctional human being. You…

— Bugzy Malone

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence…

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee

“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Let them be spattered in humiliation, be spattered in corruption; let them hear the dirge that spills from my lips, once those…

— Mizuki Nomura

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of…

— Callie Khouri

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy…

— Robert O. Paxton

Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to…

— Chris Hedges

“At high school I was never comfortable for a minute. I did not know about Lonnie. Before an exam, she got icy…

— Alice Munro

In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths,…

— Siad Barre

When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win…

— Marianne Williamson

“Sensing reprieve, grasping for it with eager disbelief, she lifted her lashes in confusion to see the same emotion reflected in his…

— Catherine Anderson

“Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he’s having right now. That’s how…

— Jane Smiley