My greatest gift ever is public embarrassment and shame

“I want to be a barking public embarrassment as soon as possible.”

— Scott Lynch

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

— Jason Segel

And it struck me that talking about our financial situation is very much like men not wanting to talk about sexual impotence. It's just…

— Neal Gabler

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Seth MacFarlane

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

“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…

— Georgia Cates

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

— Tony Snow

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

— Fred Vargas

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

— Paul Schrader

I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.

— Brendon Urie

The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.

— Simon Jenkins

“No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.”

— Meg Cabot

“-I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them…

— Joe Haldeman