Rudeness Quotes

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half rude.

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

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

You have to handle it politely, ... Don't be rude.
Hilka Klinkenberg

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness
Judith S. Marin

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Competition is a rude yet effective motivation.
Toba Beta

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham Lewis

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

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness. LESS

The utter bloody rudeness of the world today.
Lynne Truss

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

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico

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.
Margaret Cavendish

Women's gentle brain Could not drop forth such giant rude invention

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

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness
Paul Edward Theroux`

There is more offensive act of theatrical rudeness than coming late to a performance.
Maurice Zolotow







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