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Quotes About Embarrassment

The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
~ Milan Kundera
Sebagai remaja, dulu, memang betul ia sering tersipu-sipu; ketika itu dia sedang di titik berangkat perjalanan fisiologis perempuan, dan tubuhnya sedang berubah menjadi benda yang membebaninya dan membuatnya malu. Sebagai orang dewasa, dia sudah lupa caranya tersipu-sipu. Kemudian hembusan panas mengabarkan padanya akhir perjalanan itu, dan sekali lagi dia malu akan tubuhnya. Dalam suasana rasa malu yang tergugah kembali, dia pun belajar lagi cara tersipu-sipu.
~ Milan Kundera
A man falls down a flight of stairs and somebody rushes over to him and asks, Did you miss a step? No, he answers, I hit every one of them!
~ Milton Berle
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.
~ Ricky Gervais
Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'
~ Sandra Bullock
Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.
~ Stephen King
I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.
~ Carol Rifka Brunt
It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.
~ Drew Barrymore
Was she on some sort of Candid Camera version of This is Your Sucky Love Life?
~ Nicki Elson, Three Daves
SLASH What was your first sexual experience? BOBBY When I stuck my arm down a garbage disposal. PAT That wasn't a garbage disposal. BOBBY Who was it?
~ Brendan Mullen
Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....
~ Brian Jacques
The other day, one of the big shots was trying to say 'Nice shoes!' and he accidentally told a government minister that his face looked like a butt wart. Not good.
~ Carl Hiaasen
She said there was no tactful way for a naked person to cope with a runny nose, especially while dancing. Orly grudgingly agreed.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I fell down the stairs. What happened to your hair?" Raven's face purpled. "I don't know what you mean.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
~ Terry Pratchett
Granny disapproved of magic for domestic purposes, but she was annoyed. She also wanted her tea. She threw a couple of logs into the fireplace and glared at them until they burst into flame out of sheer embarrassment.
~ Terry Pratchett
I see embarrassment among all of you. That's good. The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren't, but you remember that you were.
~ Terry Pratchett
Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.
~ Terry Pratchett
A farmer who neglects to sow ordinary seeds only loses the crop, whereas anyone who forgets to sow seeds of a crop that has already been harvested twelve months before risks disturbing the entire fabric of causality, not to mention acute embarrassment.
~ Terry Pratchett
Granny Weatherwax was stretched rigid on her bed. Her face was gray, her skin was cold. People had discovered her like this before, and it always caused embarrassment. So now she reassured visitors but tempted fate by always holding, in her rigid hands, a small handwritten sign which read: I ATE'NT DEAD.
~ Terry Pratchett
Something like a small blue supernova flared for a moment in the depths of his eyesockets. It dawned on Mort that, with some embarrassment and complete lack of expertise, Death was trying to wink.
~ Terry Pratchett
When we were in high school, Jonathan would always try to embarrass me in front of girls, so I consider it my duty to pay him back.
~ Drew Scott
I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.
~ Brea Grant
Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.
~ Adam Scott