Neil Gaiman Quotes

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

It's not even necessarily the will or want to win. It's the shame and embarrassment of losing.

It is not easy when people laugh at you.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

The worst is when you bomb and when you bomb in front of someone you're trying to impress. That's the worst.

I think what's hysterically funny is a guy who sets himself up as the most confident, everything's-perfect, know-it-all, things-are-swell human being and then gets wiped out every time.

You create something, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of like people make fun of your kid or something.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

Go sit down and look pale.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum

The monster London laugh at me.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ... In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.