Awkwardness in full dress. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
Twin sister of awkwardness. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]
Anger is practical awkwardness. [ Colton ]
They always talk who never think. [ Prior ]
Who think too little, and who talk roo much. [ Drydeu ]
Fie! What a spendthrift he is of his tongue! [ William Shakespeare ]
What's a fine person, or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment gives them decent grace?
Blessed with all other requisites to please.
Some want the striking elegance of ease;
The curious eye their awkward movement tires:
They seem like puppets led about by wires. [ Churchill ]
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully or standing still.
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother.
Desirous seems to run away from t' other. [ Churchill ]
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. [ Addison ]
Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love. [ Hazlitt ]
It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears. [ Bishop Hall ]
Not all the pumice of the polish'd town
Can smooth the roughness of the barnyard clown; Rich, honor'd, titled, he betrays his race
By this one mark - he's awkward in his face. [ Holmes ]
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk. [ Montesquieu ]
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow. So arbitrary are these transient laws. [ Dumas ]
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. [ Chesterfield ]
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove. [ Mackenzie ]