Rude Quotes - Page 2

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the table manners of others is rude. But to overthrow the accepted conventions of society, on the flimsy grounds that you have found them silly, inefficient and discomforting, is a dangerous step toward destroying civilization.

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?

Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!

The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of children in the world; especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

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!