“ I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. ”
- Christopher Hampton- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors… ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there. ”
- Murray Walker- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. ”
- Paul Newman- Copy
- 447
“ Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. ”
- Sam Ewing- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There aren't any embarrassing questions — only embarrassing answers. ”
- Carl Rowan- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman. ”
- Larry David- Copy
- 3.3K
“ This is the most embarrassing thing to happen to the Republicans since yesterday. ”
- Tom Delay- Copy
- 3.2K
“ We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. ”
- Gamal Abdel Nasser- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ”
- Alain de Botton- Copy
- 129
“ My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating. ”
- Ben Affleck- Copy
- 2.8K
“ New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them? ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. ”
- Cesar Chavez- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 355
“ It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. ”
- Chuck Daly- Copy
- 2.5K
“ In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too. ”
- Suzanne Moarny- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ”
- Ellen Key- Copy
- 4K
“ The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 145
“ I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears… ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. ”
- Benito Mussolini- Copy
- 3K
“ I can't think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe… ”
- Nolan Ryan- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man… ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics. so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response. ”
- Rex Julian Beaber- Copy
- 2.1K
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