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Quotes About Rude

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.
~ John Clare
Rude, violent and bitter conduct, discussion, talk, and speech only humiliate and harm oneself, not one else.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
What a fine thing to be as rude as that with such convictions.
~ Eilís Dillon
A good person never says always good, but could also get rude to use rough language against the rascal and rogue people.
~ Anuj Somany
That's three times you've hurt my feelings in one conversation," he said a bit gruffly. "Three times?" I really hadn't mean to be rude. He counted on his fingers. "You don't like my music. I'm a soccer dad. And I'm good-looking... 'for a rock star'.
~ April Lindner
Shame can look a lot like rude.
~ Ariel Gore
But from my very first gig I've always been pretty filthy, but that's why we have an age restriction. And I make sure that the quotes on the poster say it's going to be a bit rude.
~ Sarah Millican
the British humorist Sir A. P. Herbert nicely described the conflicting set of symptoms: "Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!" he announced. "God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
~ Roy F. Baumeister
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
~ Rudyard Kipling
Wait, were you eavesdropping on my conversation with the duke? That's very rude." "Is it? Half of the plays in the world contain eavesdropping. I assumed it was a common practice.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
If you're going to sleep through lectures and skip the readings, it's rude to do it from the front row. I'm at least a thoughtful reprobate.
~ Elizabeth Fama
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.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
What a rude creature,' said Baldmoney, in a quiet tone to Sneezewort. 'How vain,' said Sneezewort; 'and he called us persons.' 'I'm waiting,' said the pheasant in a steely voice, looking over their heads. 'Well, you vain insolent creature, you can wait! We're not going out of this wood for you or anybody else!' replied Baldmoney hotly.
~ B.B.
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
~ Katharine Hepburn
New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.
~ Chris Gethard
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
~ Mario Cantone
I know how people see me. People see me as a rebel. People see me as maybe even ignorant. People see me as a threat or rude or whatever. It's a lot of people who just don't know me.
~ August Alsina
I am not a THAT. I am a pegasus, direct descendant of Poseidon and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa during the moment in which Perseus decapitated her--which, by the way, was rude. YOU, on the other hand, are descended from dirt." "Monkeys, actually. And YOU were designed by a toy company.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Again it was like the English he so much admired, those people who could be so subtly rude that you basked in their insults for days before you realized they had mortally wounded you.
~ Mario Puzo
I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Neither dog nor man liked the look of my stick, however, and the matter fell through. Relations were strained after that, and further inquiries out of the question.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
~ John Milton
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
~ John Ruskin
If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.
~ Pete Waterman