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Quotes About Embarrassment

The awkward moment when your friend crops you out of a photo.
~ Unknown
Friends: Only know a few things about you. Best friends: Could write a very embarrassing biography on your life story.
~ Unknown
That awkward moment when you're telling your friend something hilarious and they are just like, 'You already told me...'
~ Unknown
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
~ Knute Rockne
If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
~ Adam Savage
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
~ William Shatner
I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.
~ Ron Atkinson
When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.
~ Russell Crowe
I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.
~ Charlie Trotter
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
~ Walter Dean Myers
What you fear is embarrassing yourself. Anyone who says they don't fear that is lying.
~ Dereck Chisora
She felt guilty, as she had when she'd heard Matt's deep, beloved voice after thirty-odd years. She'd been too flustered to say much to him, and in the end, regretfully, she'd hung up on him out of sheer embarrassment.
~ Diana Palmer
For most Democrats, the topic is both touchy and distasteful. It's one thing to rob from the rich but quite another to rob from the poorest of the poor. Some of the Democratic primary support for Bernie Sanders was undoubtedly due to Democrats' distaste over the financial shenanigans of the Clintons. Probably these Democrats considered the Clintons to be unduly grasping and opportunistic, an embarrassment to the great traditions of the Democratic Party.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
I think it worthy of note that I never felt happier in my life - despite sorrow for Father, pity for Rose, embarrassment about Stephen's poetry and no justification for hope as regards our family's general outlook. Perhaps it is because I have satisfied my creative urge; or it may be due to the thought of eggs for tea.
~ Dodie Smith
You can't cry on Heloïse; she thumps her tail sympathetically, but looks embarrassed and moves away.
~ Dodie Smith
We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it's an embarassment to our country.
~ Donald J. Trump
For example, if we own a house-painting business, our customer's external problem might be an unsightly home. The internal problem, however, may involve a sense of embarrassment about having the ugliest home on the street. Knowing this, our marketing could offer "Paint That Will Make Your Neighbors Jealous.
~ Donald Miller
I don't understand why some guys get self-conscious when they buy condoms. I don't get embarrassed when I buy condoms. I get embarrassed when I throw them out after they expire.
~ Unknown
I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.
~ Jack Johnson
You should have seen her this morning,' he said, smiling. 'She's got into the pantry and tipped a box of Cheerios all over the kitchen floor. I walk in and she's crawling around eating them as fast as she can. Mum's standing there, watching her - she got this embarrassed look when she saw me - she does, 'I know, I know, but I can't bring myself to stop her. She thinks she's hit the jackpot.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Once, too, when he had said hello to some much older girls, one of them cried out in the strange, sticky voice he had heard grown women use, "Ooh, just look at the darlin little boy!" He had felt embarrassed but pleasantly flattered for a moment; then he heard several boys squealing the same words, but insincerely, in fact with a hatred and scorn which appalled him, and he had wished that he could not be seen.
~ James Agee
In the embarrassment of having spoken all at once they sat helpless and sad, sure only that silence, however painful to them all and to Mary, was less mistaken than trying to speak.
~ James Agee
It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.
~ Lydia Davis
And no man, not even Cyprien, could chase a girl with his pants down.
~ Lynn Viehl