Embarrassment Quotes

262 Embarrassment quotes by 231 unique authors

Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do. — Ryan Robbins
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of… — Peter Higgs
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone… — E L Doctorow
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is… — Douglas Adams
I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call… — David Walliams
Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you… — Will Self
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out… — Margaret Oliphant
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other.… — Evan Davis
A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really… — Stacy Keibler
Most true things are kind of corny, donâ€™t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. — Michel Faber
The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and… — Chogyam Trungpa
Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call… — Jim Wallis
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. — Luc de Clapiers
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate… — Josephus Daniels
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national… — Mark Shields
Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment? — Tom Cruise
I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment. — Beth Ditto

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