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Quotes About Embarrassment

She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch.
~ Jill Shalvis
You told everyone when I locked myself out last week. I fielded calls on that one all day long." "Yes, well, that's because you were wearing only your towel, which you dropped when you climbed in the window, mooning Mr. Kletzy across the street. Word is he hadn't seen a naked woman in fifty years. He's now requesting that next time you lose your towel at high noon because the light is better.
~ Jill Shalvis
There was a roar from the shadow-tiger mask around the Harley, and Murphy swept up alongside the boat. I leapt down onto the back of the bike in a single smooth motion, which I felt was cool, and landed with too much of my weight on my genitals, which I felt was not.
~ Jim Butcher
Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.
~ Jodi Picoult
You know it's a bad day when you put your bra on backwards and it fits better.
~ Unknown
That moment when you were being silly and epic with your friends and your crush saw you and think you were retarded.
~ Unknown
Emma snapped from her daze. She sat forward and slid to ground so quickly that Hart was forced to scoot back.He fell to his backside, suddenly struck with the image of how he must look: sprawled on the floor with a cockstand, a pair of pink drawers in his fist. Utterly ridiculous. Corrupt. Depraved. Hart couldn't help but grin.
~ Unknown
He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history of Catholicism, where
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
~ W.C. Fields
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.
~ W.H. Auden
Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song, and I peed myself!
~ Britney Spears
I had a date with an inflatable girl. Now I got an inflatable guy looking for me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being alive embarrasses me.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The door banged open, and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. 'It's not what you think,' she said. 'It was just—oh, okay, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now, what ?
~ Rachel Caine
The famous British actress Beatrice Lillie was once onstage in Ontario, Canada, performing in Noël Coward's This Year of Grace, the entire cast lined up to one side of her. She was singing "Britannia Rules the Waves," when she mistakenly began to sing the second verse twice, before moving to the third. She realized what she was doing but had to carry forward with it. The cast froze in place instead of moving to center stage—which
~ Dean Koontz
In the hollow steel-lined bin, my unfortunate eruption resonated such that it would have humiliated me if my first concern had been social acceptance. My first concern, however, was survival. At the moment, I didn't have the capacity for embarrassment because terror filled me.
~ Dean Koontz
Lamont, like the judge?" He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.
~ Denise Mina
Gave me terrible cramps, and I had wind for days.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Her eyes were fastened on his naked chest, and he was—for the first time in his life—embarrassed by the fact that he possessed nipples.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Randall! Of course!" Roger smacked himself on the forehead, and felt his cheeks grow hot at Brianna's giggle. "You're going to think me a complete fool, but I've only just realized who you are.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?'
~ Peter Falk