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Rudeness Quotes

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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde

Authors on Rudeness Quotes: Samuel Johnson Judith Martin Eric Hoffer Bryant H. McGill Charlotte Bronte Neal A. Maxwell Elizabeth Bowen O. Henry Johann Kaspar Lavater Clive Owen Mallory Ortberg Erin Heatherton Madame de Stael Rebecca West Confucius Gautama Buddha J. K. Rowling Mason Cooley Trenton Lee Stewart Billy Collins Lee Ryan Ben Jonson Zach Galifianakis Phil Ramone Michelle Pfeiffer Stella Gibbons Leila Aboulela Charlaine Harris Oscar Wilde Barney Frank Muriel Spark Stephen King Jean de la Bruyere
2.
Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.
Judith Martin

3.
Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

4.
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer

5.
Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.
Neal A. Maxwell

6.
It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!
Mallory Ortberg

7.
Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
J. K. Rowling

8.
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.
Stella Gibbons

9.
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant H. McGill

10.
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
Muriel Spark

11.
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
Samuel Johnson

12.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant H. McGill

13.
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.
Eric Hoffer

14.
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
Confucius

15.
If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.
Mason Cooley

16.
I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
Charlotte Bronte

17.
I have a rude thought every three seconds!
Lee Ryan

18.
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
Ben Jonson

19.
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. Henry

20.
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.
Gautama Buddha

21.
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

22.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
Madame de Stael

23.
Children are capable of such open rudeness.
Trenton Lee Stewart

24.
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
Samuel Johnson

25.
Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled
Leila Aboulela

26.
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
Jean de la Bruyere

27.
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.
Billy Collins

28.
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

29.
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
Zach Galifianakis

30.
This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness
Charlaine Harris

31.
rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
Elizabeth Bowen

32.
When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.
Judith Martin

33.
Rudeness can make me angry.
Clive Owen

34.
Rudeness, I think, is the worst.
Erin Heatherton

35.
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.
Stephen King

36.
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.
Michelle Pfeiffer

37.
Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.
Phil Ramone

38.
There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
Samuel Johnson

39.
We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
Barney Frank