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Quotes About Rudeness

Wow, how rude.
~ Jenny Han
That moron," said Harvey. Cohn came up to our table. "Hello you bums," he said. "Hello, Robert," Harvey said. "I was just telling Jake here that you're a moron.
~ Ernest Hemingway
persons of choleric dispositions and limited intelligences are apt to become rude.
~ Andrew Roberts
You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.
~ Angie Sage
had had twenty-six people arrested and thrown into the dungeons for making rude comments about him, and it had never crossed his mind even once to wonder why he had yet to hear something nice being said.
~ Angie Sage
Some bloke said to me in a restaurant whilst I was eating my dinner, 'No, stop. Starvation suits you.'
~ Emily Atack
Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.
~ Rumaan Alam
There are certain things you don't say that's disrespectful. They detract from the point you're trying to make.
~ Benjamin Watson
I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.'
~ Julia Davis
Civilizirani ljudi neugodniji su od divljaka zato što znaju da mogu biti nepristojni, a da im zbog toga netko ne raspolovi glavu.
~ Robert E. Howard
los hombres civilizados son más descorteses que los salvajes, pues saben que por lo general pueden ser maleducados sin que nadie les abra la cabeza. Se
~ Robert E. Howard
Rudeness isn't funny.' 'It bloody is,' said the first twin, to the raucous laughter of the second.
~ Robert Galbraith
And a 2015 study by Trevor Foulk and his colleagues from the University of Florida shows that even a single exposure to a rude person (e.g., a mildly insulting email from a customer) can turn a person into a "carrier," who in turn infects others with the negative behavior—so it spreads much "like the common cold.
~ Robert I. Sutton
Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled
~ Leila Aboulela
Usually, I avoid the topic by shoving food into my mouth then making I'm sorry, as you can see, it would be rude for me to speak hand signals
~ Libba Bray
The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die.
~ Lindsey Davis
We French people sometimes appear rude but are not really intending to be rude. It is because…" He shrugged. "Perhaps it's something to do with our language. French may sound a bit arrogant sometimes. As if it's God talking, perhaps. You know how God talks. French suits him very well, I think." Annabelle laughed. "The English used to say that God spoke English. But we knew he spoke French all along.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the table for clients to read while waiting for their appointment. On the cover there had been a picture of a well-known politician, a man famous for his rudeness and aggression. She had looked at the eyes--the piercing, accusing eyes, and had seen only an impenetrable, defensive anger. Nothing--no forced smiles nor rehearsed protestation of concern, could cancel out the cold selfishness of those eyes.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Never be put off by rudeness, Mma," she whispered. "It is the rude person who is rude, not you.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buy more than they do anywhere else - an attitude which reached its apogee in the Harvard manner of about 1900.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
All cats talk however they want. To whomever they want. But only a rude human speaks out of turn. Be quiet.
~ Robin Hobb
The exemption from rudeness startled him. Reading it again, however, he realized that it didn't compel him to be rude; it simply allowed him the option
~ Lois Lowry
I am something incorrect: a hair in the cottage cheese. Something uncouth: a fart in the elevator.
~ Lorrie Moore
A coisa mais deselegante do mundo é morrer
~ Rubem Fonseca