Rude Quotes - Page 12

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.

As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

There is a new world coming and this new world is very rude.

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

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women have changed so much. We're so varied. And we've become more interested in the same varied experience in fiction.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

She poked him in the center of his chest with two fingers to punctuate her words. “You are an unfeeling”—poke —“traitorous”—poke—“mistrusting”—poke—“rude”—poke —“booby!” Every poke turned him mortal, but Lord Maccon didn’t seem to mind it in the least. Instead he grabbed the hand that poked him and brought it to his lips. “You put it very well, my love.

There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

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

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.

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

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

That be the jealousy talking," Gator said, in no way perturbed. "I can't help the way the women love me. I was born with the gift." The men hooted and made rude noises. "You were born with a gift of bullshitting." Sam pointed out, "but that's about it." He looked at Dahlia. "Pardon me, ma'am, but its the truth." "I rather thought it was," she agreed.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

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