Rudeness Quotes - Page 3

• Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Children, Wall, Faces

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• Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Awkward, Modesty

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• This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Sauce

  Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.26, Orient Blackswan

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• There is a big difference you see between privately letting someone know that you're displeased, whether they've done something they may not be aware of, and just rudeness - and you do not have to tolerate rudeness, by any means.

  Ysabella Brave

  Mean, Differences, Done

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"ysabellabravetalk #1", www.youtube.com. March 09, 2007.

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• She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

  Rebecca West

  Afternoon, Scales, Disagreeable

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.331, Open Road Media

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• I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

  Dick Wolf

  Work, People, Rude

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• No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

  Paul Gallico

  Inspirational, Rude, Insulting

  The New York Times, January 14, 1962.

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• Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

  Phil Ramone

  Tolerate

  "Phil Ramone Looks Back at His Legendary Career in Expansive 1996 Billboard Interview". Interview with Paul Verna, www.billboard.com. 1996.

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• ...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Attitude, People, Rude

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• A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.

  Tyra Banks

  Girl, Thinking, Opposites

  "Eric Daman". "America's Next Top Model", April 06, 2011.

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• Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

  Samuel Johnson

  Self Esteem, Mean, Law

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.459

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• Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Gentleman, Doe

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• [The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

  Madame de Stael

  Europe, Energy, Obstinacy

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• The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Progress, Elegance

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.252

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• The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

  Nigel Calder

  Raises Questions, Discovery, Agitation

  Nigel Calder (1969). “Violent universe: an eye-witness account of the commotion in astronomy 1968-69”

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• I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flattery, Deals

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.215, Penguin

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• I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

  Billy Collins

  Kind, Obscure

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• Rudeness can make me angry.

  Clive Owen

  Make Me Angry, Angry

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• Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.

  Isaac Barrow

  Mistake, Ignorance, Causes

  Isaac Barrow, James Hamilton (1861). “The works of Isaac Barrow”, p.163

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• Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

  Erin Heatherton

  Thinking, Worst

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• Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

  Perry Brass

  Sexy, Path, Fool

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.28, Perry Brass

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• Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

  Jane Espenson

  People, Forgiving, Useless

  "Firefly (TV Series): Shindig". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Wine, Glasses, Dust

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• Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

  Bryan Burrough

  Pride, People, Insult

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• Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Powerful, Personality

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