John Keats
Poet
"There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it."
Embarrassment quotes
Embarrassment
61 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Julian Barnes
Author
"The land of embarrassment and breakfast."
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Author
"There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse."
Augusten Burroughs
Author, Memoirist
"Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to."
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"One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment."
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"As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist."
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"Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign."
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"A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment."
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"There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything."
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"Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment."
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"in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury."
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"How embarrassing to be human."
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