AWKWARDNESS

Related Subjects: Embarrassment, Manners, Stupidity, Timidity

1. Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.—LORD CHESTERFIELD

2. 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.—O. W. HOLMES
   

3. He is awkward and out of place in the society of his equals.—CHARLES LAMB, Essays of Elia