Embarrassment Quotes
262 quotes by 238 authors
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But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not…
— Christian Bale
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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
— Julian Barnes
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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
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
— Theodor Adorno
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be…
— Bjork
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent…
— Al Capp
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Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
— Kelly Clarkson
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No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must be…
— Heber J. Grant
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight…
— Michael Josephson
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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
— Pema Chodron
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was…
— Lance Armstrong
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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound…
— Thomas Carlyle
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
— Lance Armstrong
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Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
— Elizabeth Perkins
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...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight…
— Audrey Hepburn
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I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found,…
— Alexander P. de Seversky
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If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment…
— Stephen Fry
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities
— Camryn Manheim
Who Wrote These Embarrassment Quotes
238 authors contributed a total of 262 Embarrassment Quotes, led by these top contributors: