Rude Quotes - Page 10

• Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

  Jane Austen

  Death, Lovely, Fame

  1816 Emma, ch.45. ee Goldsmith 361:47.

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• People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Nice, People, Known

  "Karl Lagerfeld’s Rude Quotes Don’t Affect The Way He’s Treated, Says Designer" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

  Leanda de Lisle

  Kings, Sea, Water

  Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs

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• What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Giving

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• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea, Mind, Age

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• I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

  Sky Ferreira

  Mean, Emotional, Get Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Manners, Courteous

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• Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Heart, Gold

  Song: Heart Of Gold

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• You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Dust, Wind

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 30

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• There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Faces, Would Be

  "The Encyclopedist's Lair". The New York Times, November 19, 2007.

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• When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.

  Woody Allen

  Country, New York, Logical Ideas

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• I'm trying to do the right things, especially on the ice. Even when I talk to the media, I try to not be obnoxious or be rude. I try to approach you with respect. Same thing when I played, especially if you're the captain, you wanna try and set an example.

  Nicklas Lidstrom

  Media, Ice, Trying

  "Exit interview with legendary Red Wing Nicklas Lidstrom". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. June 21, 2012.

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• If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won't have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.

  Michele Bachmann

  Believe, People, Giving

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• How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

  Eleanor Mondale

  Father, President, Vices

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• How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

  Charles Dickens

  Religious, Struggle, Blessed

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.310, Pan Macmillan

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• Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

  Karl Marx

  Memories, Understanding, Peculiar

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.91, Wildside Press LLC

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• WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Weather, Government, Topics

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

  Lana Wood

  Silly, Behavior, Found

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• I think people really don't like cops so much; they're kind of rude to them or treat them like they can't see them.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Thinking, People, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them.

  Jhene Aiko

  Crazy, Trying, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Years

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• Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

  Jane Horrocks

  Air, Smell, Blame

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• Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Friendly, Being Rude, Polite

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• That was rude, you *are*! Rabbit knows a thing or two and I myself, don't need a weathervane to tell which way the wind blows.

  Cheshire Cat

  Blow, Wind, Two

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• I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence.

  Theodor Herzl

  Believe, Hatred, Movement

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