Rude Quotes - Page 14

• I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knitting, Opera, Might

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• A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Textbooks, Sitting, Rats

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.79, Penguin

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• Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint which changes are linked to place. I believe California has made me more polite. I get a little surprised when I rediscover how direct and rude Norwegians can be.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Believe, Moving, Los Angeles

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• I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Men, Hats

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• I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

  Derek Landy

  Men, Laughing

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• Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the glory of the triumphant sun which flooded the concave blue of heaven and the myriad shaded green of earth, the whole world knew to-day, the whole world proclaimed that spring had come. The yearly miracle had been performed.

  Ralph Connor

  Spring, Book, Blue

  Ralph Connor (2009). “The Major”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.

  Donita K. Paul

  Doe, Wizards, Strange

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.200, WaterBrook

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• We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Sea, Mountain

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sea, Water

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 54

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• He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Liars, Choices Made, Mind

  Daphne du Maurier (1936). “JAMAICA INN”

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• I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Tone, Sentences

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore

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• She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mind, Enough, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.

  Kathryn Stockett

  New York, People, Care

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.87, Penguin

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• You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mean, Thinking, Care

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the table manners of others is rude. But to overthrow the accepted conventions of society, on the flimsy grounds that you have found them silly, inefficient and discomforting, is a dangerous step toward destroying civilization.

  Judith Martin

  Silly, Civilization, Missing

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Badass, Real, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.816, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Sight

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• I'm sorry," she says. I wheel around. "You know, you're a total know-it-all. And it's incredibly rude sometimes; I mean, you're not perfect either, and you act like it's my fault but it's not my fault for being quiet or your fault for being a know-it-all. It's not your problem or my problem; it's their problem. They're the demented ones, not us, so don't take it out on me, because the only thing that holds things together for me is having someone else on the Not Demented Team.

  John Green

  Sorry, Team, Mean

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• How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Eye, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Tired, Fighting

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• Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Uniforms, Smelly

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• Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia, in the indigenous world, Alaska in particular, and in back country farm and ranch country, is a higher sense of etiquette, and more respectful manners. Urban middle class cosmopolitan world peoples of all races have become speedy and rude. This is a pretty big generalization though.

  Gary Snyder

  Country, World, Urban

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

  Cindy Sherman

  Nuts, Fuel, Ineptitude

  www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,'' and I'd say no? That's rude.

  Grace Slick

  Mean, Thinking, Rocks

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• I don't think there are any rude questions.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking

  "Corps Issues". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. May 28, 2006.

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