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Quotes About Rudeness

My least favorite thing or my pet peeve would be people who literally ignore the other people you're with, or the situation, and they just dive right in and cut off the conversation.
~ Israel Adesanya
It doesn't take a cell phone to make a person rude. There are rude people all over the place. But people are learning. I have never heard a cell phone ring in the movies. We are going to learn how to live with the advantages of new technology.
~ Martin Cooper
I'm at the doctor's office. I'm in the waiting room. And there's this guy on his cell phone, talking really loud. Does he think he owns the place? Apparently. I think this is so offensive. But you have to remember: It doesn't take a cell phone to make people rude. People were rude before there were cell phones.
~ Martin Cooper
Please don't ask how I know such things, please: where fish are concerned I know everything - or as good as - & besides, it's rude to interrupt when I am in the middle of telling you how that sorry crumpled dory began to flare up
~ Richard Flanagan
He didn't go to church. He read The Times and the Telegraph. He had been friendly and polite with me, but also sarcastic and rude; mainly, I would say, indifferent. He seemed to be cross with life.
~ Julian Barnes
She had that uniquely English talent of demonstrating, through her scrupulously polite manner, just how awful she thought the company. She could leave a roomful crushed and rejected and yet congratulate herself on behaving perfectly. It is of course of all forms of rudeness the most offensive as it leaves no room for rebuttal.
~ Julian Fellowes
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.
~ Peter Andre
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
~ Sivananda
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.
~ Billy Collins
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.
~ Stella Gibbons
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
~ Rita Mae Brown
No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them.
~ Jhene Aiko
Get out of my chair, dillhole!
~ A.A. Milne
Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.
~ Jane Espenson
With daylight (it was exactly a week since he last dressed for the office) he found himself passing through farmland over which a light snow had fallen ahead of him, softening, smoothing some of the rudeness, but not enough to hide the truth that nothing was planted.
~ Douglas Woolf
Asombrar con gestos amorsos a quien nos rechaza es, ante todo, una grosería.
~ Alejandro Dolina
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.
~ Steven Moffat
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.
~ Rebecca West