Top 50 Humiliating Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Humiliating Quotes from famous people such as Ed Markey, Patrick Henry, Ellen Key, Andie MacDowell, Arundhati Roy, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
Ed Markey
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Patrick Henry
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
In 1984, I starred in ‘Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,’ my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was ‘too southern’. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I’m amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.
Andie MacDowell
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
Arundhati Roy
Reading aloud could be humiliating, I was shy about doing it. Bear in mind I failed my English GCSE and A levels, which goes to prove that if I can embrace it, so can anyone.
Ben Fogle
You can manage cancer. You don’t have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.
Suzanne Somers
I think about death every day – what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
Ruth Rendell
I don’t find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.
Kangana Ran
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It’s possible the only thing I love more than working with Gabe Diani and Etta Devine is humiliating myself on film for all to see.
Janet Varney
My boyfriend’s idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, ‘Go!’ Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn’t humiliating, not at all.
Claudia Black
I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.
Amanda Burton
I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.
Adam Sandler
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Ernestine Rose
We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace – or, rather, a humiliating surrender.
Hideki Tojo
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
Johan Huizinga
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn’t believe I was at.
Lena Dunham
Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes ‘fun’ for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented, it is where exercise becomes not only physically demanding but also emotionally painful and socially humiliating.
Naomi Alderman
I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It’s always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you’re in jockey shorts. Yeah.
Michael Chiklis
It’s humiliating, being told you’re not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.
Marti Noxon
Once you start crossing over and displaying feminine ways, you’re a target. It’s sad, it’s humiliating, and it’s confusing.
Dominique Jackson
Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits – you can only see their eyes.
Kent Brantly
There is something about having babies in your 40s that is unique in both a humiliating and amazing way.
Sharon Maguire
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
Zygmunt Bauman
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn
I don’t agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn’t embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.
Lynda Carter
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
Few remember that the battle of Rorke’s Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.
Saul David
As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.
Sarah Silverman
There’s certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it’s a particularly emotionally humiliating thing to do, that you don’t really anticipate when you choose to do it. You don’t really think that it’s going to be quite so soul-crushing at times.
Adam Scott
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China’s unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China becomes the world’s largest economy, there is meaningful public pressure for its power status to advance in parallel. Any alternative would be humiliating.
Noah Feldman
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level.

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
I’m not a big fan of guitar face: you know, when someone’s playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and… they look you in the eye, and it’s really humiliating.
Lucas Till
There’s so much dishonesty with motherhood in general… The truth is it’s just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.
Catherine Reitman
Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it’s the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
Fiona Apple
They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.
Louise Jameson
Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public’s imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
Gary Weiss
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
Henry Flynt
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
Umberto Eco
It’s not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 – and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.
Allison Pearson
Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.
Jennifer Aniston
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law – that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
Barbara Castle
It is one thing to go through a divorce, and quite another to have the rug ripped out from under you in a very publicly humiliating way.
Camille Grammer
Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up is not as painful as it might look – probably more humiliating than painful really.
Simone Giertz
Boxing has parallels with stand-up, because you’re on your own. If a boxer gets knocked out in the first round, it’s humiliating.
Rob Beckett
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert
Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.
Peter Maurer
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
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits – formerly called ‘Untouchables,’ the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.
Shashi Tharoor
When someone is humiliating and harassing a woman, he must be knowing that the victim is needy and left with no option but to tolerate such harassment to save the job.
Soni Razdan