Embarrassment Quotes

262 Embarrassment quotes by 231 unique authors

I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to… — Anthony Weiner
I've generally got low levels of embarrassment. — Caitlin Moran
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is… — Flannery O'Connor
You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and… — Jeffrey R. Holland
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not… — Ellen DeGeneres
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is… — Neil Gaiman
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living… — Trevanian
Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
â€¦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
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have… — Jorge Luis Borges
I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply… — Bernhard Schlink
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if… — Maya Angelou
Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is… — Lynsay Sands
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even… — Jorge Luis Borges
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible… — Hermann Hesse
Iâ€™ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited… — Rick Riordan
The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every… — Cory Doctorow
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when youÂ´d utterly… — Michele Jaffe
How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being… — Stephen Fry

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