Embarrassment Quotes

262 Embarrassment quotes by 231 unique authors

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
The land of embarrassment and breakfast. — Julian Barnes
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
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
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
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. — Lance Armstrong
Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment. — Elizabeth Perkins
...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
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
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
My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities — Camryn Manheim
I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves… — Emma Stone
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped… — Cybill Shepherd
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly… — Suzanne Vega
I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I… — Callan McAuliffe
George Bush has become something of an embarrassment. — Tony Snow

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