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Quotes About Embarrassment

Embarrassment is where growth happens.
~ Jaylen Brown
I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
~ Hannah Simone
I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.
~ Jonathan Van Ness
No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself.
~ George MacDonald
Parsons used the lavatory, loudly and abundantly. It then turned out that the plug was defective and the cell stank abominably for hours afterwards.
~ George Orwell
I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- The Great Divider
~ George Saunders
Would you believe it? – the instant she clapped eyes on me, she said that she saw I had taken to dyeing my hair! I was never more shocked, for it is quite untrue! It is not dyeing one's hair merely to restore its colour when it begins to fade a little! I denied it, of course, but all she did was to give the horridest laugh, which made me feel ready to sink, as you may suppose!
~ Georgette Heyer
True it is, miss, though I blush to say it! With his own eyes did Totton see him!''He could hardly have seen him with anyone else's eyes!' snapped Miss Trent, her temper fraying.
~ Georgette Heyer
When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up.
~ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
My tights split while I was tap dancing in the West End in 1993.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
There were days I forgot my school clothes, and I would actually go to school with skating tights and a little skirt. It's very embarrassing... I definitely had to be comfortable in my own skin, and my mom taught me that.
~ Michelle Kwan
Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
~ Vash Young
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
~ Mark Twain
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
~ James Payn
I used to love Govinda songs and now I am embarrassed about it. I don't understand why thought because even now people dance to his music. I think they are still fun.
~ Neeti Mohan
I've had a few embarrassing moments in restaurants. I tried to order a quesadilla, and I totally mispronounced the word. And another time, I asked for some toast with Marmite, and they had no idea what I was asking for!
~ Alexandra Adornetto
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Sometimes you leave the house for school, and you realize you're wearing the same thing as your toddler, which is embarrassing! I try to avoid it at all costs.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.
~ Rita Ora
There's nothing quite like exiting a toilet cubicle and seeing a girl running towards you with her hand over her mouth.
~ Lolly Adefope
Is there anything more embarrassing than being caught imitating someone you really admire, by someone who knows you really well? Apart from being caught taking a shit in public, maybe not.
~ Scarlett Thomas
Q: How do you embarrass an archaeologist? A: Give him a used tampon and ask him which period it came from.
~ Scott McNeely
A girl was riding the elevator down to the lobby. The elevator stopped on the tenth floor and a totally cute boy walked in. She farted. Thinking fast on her feet she said, "Cool ringtone, isn't it? Want me to send it to you?
~ Scott McNeely
Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.
~ LL Cool J