Embarrassment Quotes and Sayings
>We all have had our share of embarrassing moments.
This collection of Embarrassment Quotes is to look back at those moments and share a smile by looking at what famous people had to say about embarrassments.
“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”
~ Douglas Engelbart
“Some people play very, very well just so they won’t get embarrassed.”
~ Lynn Swann
“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
~Tony Benn
“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.”
~John Keats
“I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.”
~Paul Tillich
“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
“We never forgive those who make us blush.”
~Jean-Francois De La Harpe
“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.”
~Byron, Lord
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
~ Helen Keller
“Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero