Rude Quotes - Page 9

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Anybody who is rude to anyone in the service industry is automatically out.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude.

I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.