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Rude Quotes - Page 8

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.250

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

O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1144, Delphi Classics

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

"Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

'The Seven Lamps of Architecture' (1849) ch. 6 'The Lamp of Memory' 7

Better is to bow than break.

"Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

"Look who's talking". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2002.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.215, Penguin

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

Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.78

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

Antonin Artaud (1974). “Collected Works”, Calder Publications Limited