Quotes of Disconcert - somelinesforyou

“ Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. ”

- Tom Brown

“ Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? ”

- John Gunther

“ Oh dear God, all these effeminate gay men are going to embarrass us! ”

- Troy Perry

“ Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. ”

- Tom Brown

“ If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another. ”

- Luciano Pavarotti

“ When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents. ”

- Russell Crowe

“ There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. ”

- Drew Barrymore

“ Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down. ”

- Alexander Haig

“ You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity. ”

- Theodore L. Cuyler

“ You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. ”

- Jessica Mitford

“ I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench. ”

- Sparky Anderson

“ I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter. ”

- Beverly Sills

“ Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother. ”

- Robert C. Byrd

“ There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me — I always feel that they have not said enough. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It is dangerous to confuse children with angels. ”

- David Fyfe

“ The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. ”

- Voltaire

“ The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ The whole era when I was busy being a big movie star was terribly disconcerting. I was cared for and cosseted, and yet I was totally dependent. ”

- Faye Dunaway

“ You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. ”

- Learned Hand

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. ”

- Lance Morrow
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