Cringe Quotes
84 quotes by 81 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
— Madonna Ciccone
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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
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I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.
— Thomas Jane
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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
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Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
— Julie Christie
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I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
— Sheryl Crow
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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
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
— Fiona Apple
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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
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I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over....
— Tori Amos
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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
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When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
— Rachel Roy
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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
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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
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
— Irwin Shaw
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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
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The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Who Wrote These Cringe Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 84 Cringe Quotes, led by these top contributors: