He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.

Helen Simonson
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He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule. This quote was taken from a newspaper article in which a man in a meeting is so humiliated in front of his co-workers that he has a stroke in a meeting room. He was embarrassed by being found out in his buffoonery so he decided to have a stroke in the middle of a meeting. The irony is that this man was not embarrassed by being made fun of, he felt superior to others. He was not any better than anyone else, but he couldn’t handle being made fun of by another human being.

Source: Major Pettigrews Last Stand

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