Cringe Quotes

84 quotes by 81 authors

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling… — John Mason Brown
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't… — Kingsley Amis
You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them. — Jane Roberts
Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe. — Madonna Ciccone
I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white… — Barack Obama
I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe. — Thomas Jane
I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is… — Jude Law
Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine. — Julie Christie
I don't really cringe over any of my albums. — Sheryl Crow
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,… — Boethius
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe. — Fiona Apple
Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not a lot of… — Jim Leyland
I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.... — Tori Amos
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of… — Patricia Briggs
When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe. — Rachel Roy
You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe. — Jennifer Connelly
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it… — James Russell Lowell
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? — Irwin Shaw
I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years. — Steve Forbert
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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