26 Quotes About Embarrassment

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. Margaret Mitchell

Well, we were always going to fail that one, " said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection. J.k. Rowling

Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions.“ Good book?” he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, “A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad, ” out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor. . Michele Jaffe

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret. P.D. James

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here–humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed–but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one. Christopher Hitchens

I haven’t felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders, and I haven’t experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I’ve put out into this great bigwhite world. Kris Kidd

Morfyd’s care. As she walked out of the cave she passed Annwyl walking in. The girl had her swords in one hand. The other hand held her ripped shirt and bindings over her ample breasts. Her brows angled down into a dark frown and she wouldn’t even look at Morfyd as she passed.“ How did that talk go then?” Morfyd called over her shoulder.“ Shut. Up.”Morfyd laughed as she advanced into the glen toward the clearing where she could take off. She rounded a corner and came upon her brother, his chainmail shirt and sword in his big hand, heading toward the hidden entrance of his cave. She watched him as he passed and she noticed the long scratches across his back.“ How did that talk go then?” Morfyd called over her shoulder.“ Shut. Up.”Morfyd shook her head. If love always made you this pathetic, she wanted nothing to do with it. . G.A. Aiken

On my way out I didn't look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn't look at him because I didn't believe he was a terrorist, but maybe I didn't look at him because I didn't want to embarrass him. Assaf Gavron

So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an opportunity for personal growth. Donald L. Hicks

Experience is the best school, Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there, Offering only one lesson called Life, That you could only finish once you're dead! Nelson M. Lubao

Hell hath no fury like a man embarrassed by a woman J.R. Rain

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals. Trevanian

But she's not.' I told the man, 'Look at you! You're a vampire giving up beating hearts in favor of the woman you love. That's pretty-'' Embarrassing?' he finished for me with a frown. I narrowed my eyebrows, 'Well, what I was going to say was admirable, but I guess that works too. Emma Rose Kraus

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. Al Capp

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. Robert Burns

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you. Michael R. French

Remember what I done for you here today, ' he shouted and passed out. Charlie Higson

There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there. Michelle Orange

Mae's first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical. Sarah Rees Brennan

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. George Eliot

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. Seth MacFarlane

I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment. Jesse L. Martin