Embarrassment Quotes
262 Embarrassment quotes by 231 unique authors
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Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her…
— Lisi Harrison
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Let me guess,†Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.†I just looked at…
— Sarah Dessen
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One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?†Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and…
— Nalini Singh
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In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse…
— Helen Keller
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I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
— Johnny Depp
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They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to…
— Tim O'Brien
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Here," she said. "This is for you." "I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to…
— David Levithan
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She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.
— Kevin Hearne
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All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny.…
— David Nicholls
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I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
— Deb Caletti
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I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my…
— John Green
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She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,†as her mother said, who never…
— Gail Carriger
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I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on…
— Darin Strauss
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Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened.…
— Madeline Miller
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To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me…
— C.E. Murphy
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There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not…
— Flannery O'Connor
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one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment,…
— Allen Ginsberg
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A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that…
— Deb Caletti
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We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to…
— Jonah Lehrer
Who Wrote These Embarrassment Quotes
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