Awkwardness Quotes

70 quotes by 63 authors

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison
Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels. — David Cameron
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the… — Frederick William Robertson
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal?… — Maggie Grace
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it,… — Diane Arbus
I've been looking at that in myself lately. Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind… — Emma Stone
Poetry is the essence of everything, and itâ€™s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness — Charlie Flynn
I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched… — Sarra Manning
Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty. — Matt Kibbe
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert… — Henry Mackenzie
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon de L'Enclos
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Alexandre Dumas
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to… — Sister Parish
If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our… — Mildred Cable
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Awkwardness gives me great comfort. — Marc Jacobs
That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort,… — Natasha Lyonne
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore… — Ernest Hemingway

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