Rudeness Quotes

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

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

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

If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

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

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

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

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.