Humiliating Quotes

“In the hands of a cruel person, honesty can be a lethal weapon.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“...by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.”
― Mark Twain

“But now she can understand what he was trying to tell her. It is good to want things, even the humiliating things. Even the things you aren’t supposed to want, like Gary, the groom. Because every time she thinks of sitting in that hot tub with Gary, she feels so lucky to be alive.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People