Quotes About Embarrassment

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to be a little more embarrassed.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

My mom told me when I was younger that when you jack off all of your dead relatives are watching. But then I figured who were they going to tell.

My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.'

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.

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.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

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