Quotes About Rudeness

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

A man in a business suit stepped around me, barking, "Excuse me," and glaring, as if I was slowing him down from getting his asshole-of-the-year award. He

Tardiness was the greatest insult of them all; arrangements were made to suit those concerned – it was the height of rudeness to overlook other people's needs.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

Though the Finns' taciturnity may work among themselves, problems arise when they travel or have to work with foreigners. The men, in particular, can be simply too frank, too direct, sometimes to the point of rudeness. They find it especially challenging to engage in the social lubricant of small talk, something even Norwegians can manage if they put their minds to it.

People don't say "Give me your honest opinion" because they want an honest opinion. They say it because it's rude to say "Please tell me I'm amazing.

Good manners, in the end, are nothing but the way in which respect is expressed. Since respect, in its turn, is a feeling inspired by the presence of an admitted superior, wherever hierarchies are absent—real or fictitious, but revered—good manners die out. Rudeness is a democratic product.

I had come to realize that the junior officers of the Party often used the exaggerated gesture of rudeness to cover up their feeling of inferiority.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

RUDENESS IS THE WEAK MAN'S IMITATION OF STRENGTH. —Eric Hoffer

rudeness begets conflict with others but also conflict within ourselves, and the latter can prove as hurtful as the former (p. 43).

Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.

La etiqueta es un puñado de normas que la gente utiliza para poder ser grosera en público con los demás.

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

He hated being late, always felt it was a sign of rudeness, as if you were making the statement, my time's more important than yours, so I can keep you waiting . . .