How embarrassing to be human.

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

They could all know now if they wanted, but they are too embarrassed. Rolth, for three thousand years everyone has tried to find a word to differentiate men from other animals; some of the ancients called him the laughing animal, some the moral animal. Well, I wonder if he isn’t the embarrassed animal.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

No animal suffers worse than a human being.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma.

We only become beasts—we become worse than beasts—when we torment others.