Quotes About Embarrassment
He stepped forward, and as he did the left side of his coconut brassiere slipped down, revealing his left nipple. He shoved the coconut back into place. He didn't want to look unprofessional.
~ Dave Barry
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HAVE YOU EVER REALLY EMBARRASSED YOURSELF? Don't answer that, stupid. It's a rhetorical question. Of course you've embarrassed yourself. Everybody has. I bet the pope has. If you were to say to the pope: "Your Holy Worshipfulness, I bet you've pulled some blockheaded boners in your day, huh?" he'd smile that warm, knowing, fatherly smile he has, and then he'd wave. He can't hear a word you're saying, up on that balcony.
~ Dave Barry
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the bathroom. Really, Mr. Colville
~ David Drake
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08/14/1025h. Dessert Competitions. 08/14/1315h. Illinois State Fair Infirmary; then motel; then Springfield Memorial Medical Center Emergency Room for distention and possible rupture of transverse colon (false alarm); then motel; incapacitated till well after sunset; whole day a washout; incredibly embarrassing, unprofessional; indescribable. Delete entire day.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Well it totally freaks them out, what do you think? And I just about die of the embarrassment. I don't ever know what to say. What do you say if you just shouted "Victory for the Forces of Democratic Freedom!" right when you came?
~ David Foster Wallace
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Someone has farted; no one knows just who, but this isn't like a normal adult place where everybody coolly pretends a fart didn't happen; here everybody has to make their little comment.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Because it literally makes no sense. Close to two hundred people all punishing somebody by getting embarrassed for him, killing him by empathetically dying right there with him, for him, up there at the podium. The applause when this guy's done has the relieved feel of a fist unclenching, and their cries of 'Keep Coming!' are so sincere it's almost painful.
~ David Foster Wallace
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O shame! where is thy blush?
~ William Shakespeare
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Es una verguenza decirlo pero, mierda, no sé bailar salsa.
~ Xavier Velasco
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She spotted Cam Staunton in his dress blues, scouting the dessert table. As she watched, he scooped up two biscuits and stuffed them into his mouth. When he turned and saw Lyss watching, his face went scarlet, which contrasted nicely with the powdered sugar around his mouth.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
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I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.
~ Claire LaZebnik
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There I was open-mouthed and offended and withdrawn—faced with the dusty being looking back at me. Take what I saw: because what I was seeing with an embarrassment so painful and so frightened and so innocent, what I was seeing was life looking back at me.
~ Clarice Lispector
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Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal.
~ Clive Cussler
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The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.
~ Holly Black
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I'm afraid I may have set one of the guests on fire.
~ Holly Black
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That's what's so embarrassing about all this. Each time I sobbed for a lost baby, it was like sobbing over the end of a relationship when I'd never even gone out with the guy. My babies weren't babies. They were just microscopic clusters of cells that weren't ever going to be anything else. they were just my own desperate hopes. Dream babies. And people have to give up on dreams.
~ Liane Moriarty
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And Jeremy, her earnest face crumpled. She looked so embarrassed, I felt like I'd kicked a kitten. She was falling all over herself to apologize.
~ Liane Moriarty
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Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.
~ Liane Moriarty
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It was embarrassing just how much genuine happiness she was gaining from something so superficial.
~ Liane Moriarty
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No wonder she felt so ashamed of her shyness, as if it were an embarrassing physical ailment that needed to be hidden at all costs.
~ Liane Moriarty
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When she looked up Tony was already walking toward the pool gate. As he lifted his arm to open it, his shorts suddenly slid down to his knees to reveal the entirety of his buttocks. "Fuck!" he said with deep feeling. Frances stared. What in the world? The man had tattoos of bright yellow smiley faces on both his butt cheeks. It was extraordinary. It was like discovering he was wearing a secret clown suit beneath his clothes.
~ Liane Moriarty
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Idiopathic Craniofacial Erythema', or 'severe facial blushing'.
~ Liane Moriarty
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She looks embarrassed, sitting on that stool, to be who she is now. She seems pained by all the compliments Muriel's colleagues are giving her. Success rests more easily on men.
~ Lily King
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A yellow oilskin jumped from a scooter, and walked purposefully towards him, notebook in hand. He couldn't have been more than eighteen, his face spotted adolescent red. 'You can't park there.' There was righteous indignation in his voice. ?Bill flashed his ID. 'Get lost or I'll book you!' ?The red blotches met one another in embarrassment. ?'Sorry officer.' ?He retreated to his scooter.
~ Unknown
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