Embarassment Quotes

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
― Arthur Miller

“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
― Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“Stop it, Mom, you're making me blush.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.”
― Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck

“I think the root of embarrassment is feeling totally misunderstood, wanting to explain yourself over and over but knowing that you won't make much sense to anyone even if you do.”
― Alice Ozma, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared

“It was 1976.
It was one of the darkest days of my life when that nurse, Mrs. Shimmer, pulled out a maxi pad that measured the width and depth of a mattress and showed us how to use it. It had a belt with it that looked like a slingshot that possessed the jaw-dropping potential to pop a man's head like a gourd. As she stretched the belt between the fingers of her two hands, Mrs. Shimmer told us becoming a woman was a magical and beautiful experience.

I remember thinking to myself, You're damn right it had better be magic, because that's what it's going to take to get me to wear something like that, Tinkerbell! It looked like a saddle. Weighed as much as one, too. Some girls even cried.
I didn't.
I raised my hand.
"Mrs. Shimmer," I asked the cautiously, "so what kind of security napkins do boys wear when their flower pollinates? Does it have a belt, too?"
The room got quiet except for a bubbling round of giggles.
"You haven't been paying attention, have you?" Mrs. Shimmer accused sharply. "Boys have stamens, and stamens do not require sanitary napkins. They require self control, but you'll learn that soon enough."
I was certainly hoping my naughty bits (what Mrs. Shimmer explained to us was like the pistil of a flower) didn't get out of control, because I had no idea what to do if they did.”
― Laurie Notaro, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life

“There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“There is no alarm clock like embarassment.”
― Maryrose Wood

“Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.”
― Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

“She was only fifteen. At that age embarassment is something you can actually die of.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird

“I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'

I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Need I say more?'
'No, because you're wrong, and I'd hate for you to keep embarrassing yourself.”
― Erin McCahan, Love and Other Foreign Words

“Oh no." Lorelai pulled her hand from Kol's, her skin prickling with heat from absolute humiliation. Maybe if she prayed hard enough, the forest floor would open up and swallow her. If there was any justice in the world, it would swallow Leo too.”
― C.J. Redwine, The Shadow Queen

“Were it not for frustration and humiliation
I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.”
― Ogden Nash, Custard and Company: Poems

“I lay down and started to feel a little depressed about prom. I refused to feel any kind of sadness over the fact that I wasn't going to prom, but I had - stupidly, embarrassingly - thought of finding Margo, and getting her to come home with me just in time for prom, like late on Saturday night, and we'd walk into the Hilton ballroom wearing jeans and ratty T-shirts, and we'd be just in time for the last dance, and we'd dance while everyone pointed at us and marveled at the return of Margo, and then we'd fox-trot the hell out of there and go get ice cream at Friendly's. So yes, like Ben, I harbored ridiculous prom fantasies. But at least I didn't say mine out loud.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“Not a single friend or relative came to see me graduate; I was sorry and glad too; sorry there was no one to pat me on the back, and glad that none of my family were there, for I should have wanted to drop dead each time one of them opened his mouth. I believe to many, this attitude would be inconceivable; it is difficult to explain how one suffers from it.”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years

“For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

“Claudette looked to the ground like an embarrassed sheep who had been informed that it was frequently used as a description for timidity.”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez

“At the Meet she was a prey to her self-conscious shyness, so that she fancied people were whispering. There was no one now with bowed, patient shoulders to stand between her and those unfriendly people.

Colonel Antrim came up. 'Glad to see you out, Stephen.' But his voice sounded stiff because he was embarrassed—everyone felt just a little embarrassed, as people will do in the face of bereavement.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“If you had never lived, and my mind was full of you--a fantasy figure with whom I am having an intense personal relationship--they'd give me treatment. They'd lock me up for being delusional. As it is, yes, it's an embarrassment.

The black-armband days were easier. It was a sign to say--I am a bit odd. Give me space. Give me time. Grief takes time.

I am grieving. I discover that grieving means living with someone who is no longer there.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

“Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?”
― Tom Cruise

“Альма вдруг встала и подняла Ретту с пола. Она больше не могла это выносить. Не могла сидеть неподвижно и слушать; ни слова больше. Не имея никакого плана, она обняла Ретту. Обнимать девушку было гораздо проще, чем смотреть ей в лицо.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“Children’s imaginations are too often killed by embarrassed parents.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Under his pride was embarrassment. Embarrassment for not being able to provide enough for his family.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“The awkward silence could be easily cut by a knife.”
― Dina Husseini

“Without will of my own, my startled sight jumped to Guenhumara's face and I saw the tide of painful color flood up to the roots of her hair, and I knew too that she had had no warning, but that unlike me, she had feared in advance; and that the heavy paint of her face had been put on as a young man takes up his armor.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset