Rude Quotes - Page 20

• I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude... I'm never going to say anything personal about myself on stage. That's my new goal.

  David Rees

  Girlfriend, Ex Boyfriend, Goal

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Country, Couple

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

  Mary McCarthy

  Responsibility, Law, Judging

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Thinking, Smell

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• It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

  Norman Douglas

  Half, Pay

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

  Barack Obama

  Way, Fame, Minutes

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

  John Ruskin

  Courage, Race, Gentleman

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.288

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• The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

  Edmund Burke

  Benefits, Fierce, Christianity

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.87, Transaction Publishers

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• You are always living a reflection of whatever you are outputting. And so, if you get into a little pocket where a lot of people are being rude, it's probably because you are being rude — or because you have been aware of people being rude. Nothing ever happens to you that is not part of your vibration!

  Esther Hicks

  Reflection, People, Pockets

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• If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

  Rudy Rucker

  Zines, Failing, Print

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

  Scott Baio

  Thinking, People, Disrespectful

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

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• I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

  Helen Alfredsson

  Play, Balls, Used

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• The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Romance, Kind, Form

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.384, Booklassic

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• With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

  Edward Carpenter

  Mind, Details, Materials

  Edward Carpenter (1984). “Selected Writings: Sex”

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• What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly

  Slavoj Žižek

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Caring

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?”, p.128, Verso

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• If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

  Sergei Dovlatov

  People, Moscow, Ifs

  Sergei Dovlatov (2014). “Pushkin Hills”, p.141, Counterpoint

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• I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, "Hi, how are you?" I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Hate, People, Reason

  "Madonna Quotes" by Jone Johnson Lewis, www.thoughtco.com. May 2, 2017.

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• The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. If you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am'. There's a certain indefensibility about it. It's not about loving your community and taking care of it — you're not attached to the chamber of commerce. It's a little unsafe. You have to be willing to have only four friends, not 11.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Who I Am, Loving You

  "Lorrie Moore" by Louisa Kamps, www.elle.com. September 16, 2009.

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• There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Kings, Smoking, Sweden

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.297, Delphi Classics

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• I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn’t get away with it. I wasn’t Parcells. They make light of it, but they’re not making light of it with me.

  Tom Coughlin

  Light, Media, Bills

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• I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude.

  Russell Simmons

  Vegan, Humans, Angry

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• You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!

  Bernardino of Siena

  Thinking, Rosary, Saint

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• Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

  Gwen Ifill

  Tough, Good Things, Accused

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• The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Mind, One Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.392, Рипол Классик

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• Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

  Rudy Rucker

  Writing, Advice, Done

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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