Embarrassment Quotes
But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?
Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircas...
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...
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Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of shee...
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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humo...
Show MoreO, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free ...
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Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy...
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Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same...
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Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long wa...
Show MoreAnyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
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That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is oft...
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It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...
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I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on ...
Show MoreThere is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the id...
Show MoreBut that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, ...
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