Best 131 quotes in «embarrassment quotes» category

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, it is, after all this time, kind of an embarrassment.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

My films are about embarrassment.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

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 embarrassment.

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.

This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

A mental list (and countdown) of my most embarrassing moments: (5) That time when my third grade teacher announced that I was too smart for her class in front of my fellow third graders; (4) That phase I went through in junior high when I thought jumpers were cool; (3) That time when I burst into tears at my surprise party for no apparent reason; (2) That time when I decided to become more active in my school's extracurricular stuff and showed up dressed for a school dance a week early; (1) Just now;

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.

But he didn't, it happened, know the Munsters well enough to give the case much of a lift; so that they were left together as if over the mere laid table of conversation.

But she's not.' I told the man, 'Look at you! You're a vampire giving up beating hearts in favor of the woman you love. That's pretty-' 'Embarrassing?' he finished for me with a frown. I narrowed my eyebrows, 'Well, what I was going to say was admirable, but I guess that works too.

Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.

Anyway, we were at the party, and Magnus got this alert about necromantic magic near the L.A. Institute, and he tried to reach Malcolm, but no luck. So we snuck out, the four of us. Which is a big loss to the party if you ask me, because I was going to give a toast and it was goin to be glorious. Simon would never bee able to show his face in public again." "Not really the point of an engagement toast, Jace," Clary said.

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

celebrate your happiness in limit so others not feel abashment.