Best 131 quotes in «embarrassment quotes» category

What is embarrassment? In general, embarrassment is an emotional response to an innocent mistake. The major reason that some of us are embarrassment-prone is that we’ve been conditioned to set unrealistically high expectations for ourselves and to judge ourselves negatively when we can’t possibly meet those standards. A second reason that makes us susceptible to embarrassment is that we’ve been taught to take our cue in evaluating ourselves from what we assume (often erroneously) to be others’ opinions of us.

What is there to tell? She kept rolling out words and I kept listening.” “What did she say? What did you say?” “I could hear not a single word that she uttered. What did I say? I could say nothing. Friend! My senses and judgement, self-restraint, peace, my entire strength - all deserted me. I ran to her and stood before her with folded arms like a slave. O Jitaji, like the moth that flutters around the candle I offered my life as a sacrifice to her.

You cannot really hurt a masochist.

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.

Wow." Josh stopped and ran a hand over his shaved head. "I mean, yeah, there's no beating that. That's the Usain Bolt of embarrassing texts. That's made me feel a lot better, actually." "Oh, good. Great. Glad my shit-show of a life could be of service.

Yes. And also, if it's okay by you, I'd like to shut up now... Or possibly just go somewhere and swallow my face.

Where are you guys getting all of this?" I asked. "What does it matter if I - oh come on." We'd reached the lobby and found Eddie and Micah sitting on a bench together. They at least had the decency to look embarrassed. "Not you guys too," I said. "I was just here to see Jill," said Micah unconvincingly. "And I was here to, um..." Eddie faltered, and I held up a hand to stop him.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.

Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.

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.

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

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

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.

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.

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.

Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.

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.

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

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

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

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

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

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

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

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

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.

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

My films are about embarrassment.

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

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.

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

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 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.]

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.

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

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