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Quotes About Awkward

When Connie rounded the corner several seconds later, she found her friend standing glumly by herself, squeezing a roll of Charmin.
~ Armistead Maupin
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I can see her struggling to make what she considers courtly banter, but if she's ever been kissed before, I'll eat my hat. I'll eat your hat, which has more lace on it.
~ Sherwood Smith
And for all her theoretical desire to make their house a refuge for him and for whomever he liked to invite, she had never learned to keep her opinions of people to herself. When she was bored by callers, she would beg Do you mind if I run up to bed now--such a headache, with a bright friendliness which fooled no one save herself, and which left their guests chilled and awkward.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and think Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!
~ Sophie Kinsella
Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.
~ Sophie Kinsella
She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.
~ Sophie Kinsella
We're just... friends. No, friends doesn't feel right. Not colleagues either. Not really acquaintances... OK. Let's face it. It's weird.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I trail away into silence. I've just shared details of my condom use with my son's teacher. I'm not sure how that happened.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Mrs Brandon.' The sonographer cuts me off. 'You're talking to your bladder.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I have never felt so mortified in my entire life. Ever. Jack Harper takes me to the grandest, poshest restaurant in the world. And I take him to a park bench in Clapham.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Trish and Eddie are darting glances at each other. They really are the oddest people.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I had no idea you could be a specialist at awkward conversations
~ Sophie Kinsella
It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.
~ Hilary Swank
You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Peter: Omggg! How do I tell Will that I love him!? I think that I acutally LOVE him! Not just "Like" but LOVE.... Omgg help mee! William: You seriously think that? Peter: Yess Yess!! How do I tell him? William: You just did. Check who you sent this to.. Peter: Crap. Umm, this is awkward. William: No it's not. I love you too.
~ John Riddle
Success is always less awkward. It does not make claims upon pity or tact: congratulations are easier to give than condolences.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
We can all remember saying something inadequate in a crisis or even, the more unbalanced of us, giggling at the news of death.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
He put his feet down into the little puddle she'd chosen. They were huge next to hers, and they both stared for a moment. Then he moved in one smooth motion to her rock. // "What are you doing?" she gasped, just like the heroine in a bad play.
~ Eloisa James
You get up in the morning after you've slept with someone, and the first person you and your latest conquest bump into is your mum, angrily waving a receipt under your nose and demanding: 'Why have you spent this much on a dress for Kiki Dee?' It's just weird. It really takes the shine off the atmosphere of post-coital bliss.
~ Elton John
Sometimes you can feel old-sweatshirt comfortable with someone you've just met and two-left-shoes awkward with people you've known for ages.
~ Emil Sher
Ballet dancers, out of their stylized routines, are fish out of water. On a ballroom floor they're as awkward as other clods, muscle-bound, rhythmless.
~ bankhead tallulah iii