Rudeness Quotes

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

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

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

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

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

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

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.

Rudeness can make me angry.

Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.