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Quotes About Rudeness

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Shakra scowled. "You're a moron." "Being rude does not make you more intelligent that I." "No, being more intelligent than you makes me more intelligent than you, you goat-brained simpleton." "I did not come here to be insulted." "What, do you have somewhere special to go for that kind of thing?
~ Derek Landy
Bon ! cria-t-elle, j'avais déjà oublié que vous étiez là, vous ! Vous pourriez bien tousser avant de parler. Vous avez une voix qui part brusquement comme celle d'un mort.
~ Émile Zola
Shut up, idiot. I'm counting bongs.
~ Eoin Colfer
Rudeness is a weak persons imitation of strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the fruits of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
~ Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
~ Eric Hoffer
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
~ Amy Vanderbilt
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
~ Rita Mae Brown
He tried to turn me into a buffet?" I gritted my teeth. "Before he killed me? He couldn't kill me first and then eat me? That's just fucking rude.
~ Rob Thurman
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.
~ Robbie Coltrane
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A huge body of research—hundreds of studies—shows that when people are put in positions of power, they start talking more, taking what they want for themselves, ignoring what other people say or want, ignoring how less powerful people react to their behavior, acting more rudely, and generally treating any situation or person as a means for satisfying their own needs—and that being put in positions of power blinds them to the fact that they are acting like jerks.
~ Robert I. Sutton
Hundreds of experiments show that encounters with rude, insulting, and demeaning people undermine others' performance—including their decision-making skills, productivity, creativity, and willingness to work a little harder and stay a little later to finish projects and to help coworkers who need their advice, skills, or emotional support.
~ Robert I. Sutton
No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite . - Jean-Claude
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
A lot of people take too much directness as rudeness, especially from a woman.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Oh, that's my fault,' I told Goodheart. 'I hate haggling over a pittance. It always seems so rude. And these people have so little, compared to us.' I was interested to hear the committed Communist sniff in disgust at my willingness to share the wealth.
~ Laurie R. King
As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That's rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?" The Doctor
~ Grant Battersby
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
~ Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
Well," Skulduggery said. "That was rude.
~ Derek Landy
Now I can't abide rudeness, even in so called great artists. Rudeness and cruelty are the qualities i hate most. Rudeness and cruelty are always connected, I feel. One example out of many is Stalin.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
Now I can't abide rudeness, even in so-called great artists. Rudeness and cruelty are the qualities I hate most (...). No, don't expect anything good from a rude man.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
~ Malcolm Gladwell