Quotes About Rudeness

The Master said, 'Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

I said to this monk… I heard you got a stock of shoes here. Piss off, he said to me.

Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they'd let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more.

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!" said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.

There is one, and only one, advantage to somebody who cannot play the violin insisting on doing so anyways, and the advantage is that they often play so loudly that they cannot hear if the audience is having a conversation. It is extremely rude, of course, for an audience to talk during a concert performance, but when the performance is a wretched one, and lasts six hours, such rudeness can be forgiven.

It is extremely rude, of course, for an audience to talk during a concert performance

You and I, Sir John, said Mrs. Jennings, should never stand upon such ceremony. Then you would be very ill-bred, cried Mr. Palmer. My love, you contradict every body, - said his wife with her usual laugh. Do you know that you are quite rude? I did not know I contradicted any body in calling your mother ill-bred.

Grandma ladled out oatmeal for the three of us. She and I took our bowls into the dining area, and Bob ate his in the kitchen. When Grandma and I went back to the kitchen, Bob's bowl was empty. The cardboard box that used to hold the cake was also empty. "Guess Bob's got a sweet tooth," Grandma said. I shook my finger at him. "That was rude. And besides, you'll get fat." Bob wagged his tail.

One of the more stressful parts of modern life is dealing with all the unlikeable people who populate it. If they don't kill themselves with their own unpleasantness and rudeness, they'll drive the rest of us to drink.

Hands up!' said Mr Cootes with the uncouth curtness of one who has not had the advantages of a refined home and a nice upbringing.

Mrs. Pett, like most other people, subconsciously held the view that the ruder a person is the more efficient he must be. It is but rarely that any one is found who is not dazzled by the glamour of incivility.

The hard core of human egotism is hardly to be dislodged except rudely.

Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

How a company is perceived, Bezos concluded, largely came down to how it behaved, and how its behaviors compared with those of its direct competitors. "Rudeness is not cool," he warned his colleagues. "Defeating tiny guys is not cool," he added. "Polite is cool," he argued, "defeating bigger, unsympathetic guys is cool.

You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)

How is one ever to know why a perfect stranger is kind beyond the call of duty or else inexplicably rude?

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

Girl3 "You don't have to be a jerk" SlingBlade "Quite the contrary, my sloppy penile scholar.Order me another drink and be quick about it.

Hey, igloo-face, that's not cool,

Put those pistols down at once,' he said coldly. 'Do not you know it is very rude to point a pistol at a person you do not mean to kill? For shame, Villiers. Where were you brought up?