Quotes About Embarrassment

Most of the codebreakers returned to their civilian lives, sworn to secrecy, unable to reveal their pivotal role in the Allied war effort. While those who had fought conventional battles could talk of their heroic achievements, those who had fought intellectual battles of no less significance had to endure the embarrassment of having to evade questions about their wartime activities.

I'm blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.

I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and think Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.

I trail away into silence. I've just shared details of my condom use with my son's teacher. I'm not sure how that happened.

He even said you once threw al your husband's clothes onto the street and invited the neighbors to help themselves! says Ellen with a bright laugh. He's got such an imagination! My face flames. Damn. I thought he was asleep when I did that.

like that time I used false eyelashes with dodgy glue from the market, then tottered into the bathroom the next morning to find one eye glued shut with what looked like a dead spider on top of it. Really attractive, Lexi.

OK. The trick is when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened.

I have never felt so mortified in my entire life. Ever. Jack Harper takes me to the grandest, poshest restaurant in the world. And I take him to a park bench in Clapham.

Of course! I'm far more used to working with a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Nimbus 2000." Trish peers at me in surprise. "Isn't that the broomstick out of Harry Potter?" Damn. I knew I'd heard it somewhere. "Yes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is," I say at last, my face flaming. "And also a well-known ironing board. In fact, I think the broomstick was named Ã¢â'¬Â¦ er Ã¢â'¬Â¦ after the ironing board.

You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'

I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.

Tact is that quality of grace that wins the confidence of people who are sure you won't do or say something stupid. You can't inspire a following if people have to hang their heads in embarrassment at the inappropriate and insensitive things you say or do. Tact is especially needed in a leader to help cope with embarrassing or tragic situations.

well-documented that physically or sexually abused children usually keep such matters to themselves, either from fear of retaliation or feelings of shame and embarrassment." Maritza

Queenie was devoted to careless name-dropping, scattering the details of her privileged upbringing without the faintest hint of modesty or embarrassment (though, after a while Maddie began to realize she only did it with people she liked or people she detested--those who didn't mind and those she didn't care about--anyone in between, or who might have been offended, she was more cautious with).

we stand revealed as something our parents are mortified to have created.

And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.

Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.

There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

Oh my God! I can't believe I did that!

i felt ashamed. i stared down at the ground and stood very still and very quietly.

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As a child my name embarrassed me. Ragged by normally named playmates, I'd bawl. In one school I changed to Elizabeth. This alias was annulled once Daddy heard of it.