Rude Quotes - Page 6

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

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

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

I don't think there are any rude questions.

Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

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

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.