Best 131 quotes in «embarrassment quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

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

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

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

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

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

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.

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

My films are about embarrassment.

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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;

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

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.