Famous Quotes & Sayings

Becca Fitzpatrick

Listen, Patch, I don’t want to be rude, but—” “Sure you do.” “Well, you started it!” Lovely. Very mature.

Bryant H. McGill

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Bryant H. McGill

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Edsger Dijkstra

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

David Bentley

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.

David Baldacci

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

Daniel Dennett

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,

Clive Owen

Rudeness can make me angry.

David Spade

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

Amy Poehler

Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Barack Obama

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

Brother Lawrence

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

Edmund Burke

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Phil Collins

They're rude and not as talented as they think they are. I won't mince words here but they've had a go at me personally.

Jack Nicholson

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

Gwen Ifill

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I would speak up if I see someone being rude to someone.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Rudeness is what gets to me. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.

Lisa Scottoline

Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?

Penn Jillette

It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

Maurice Baring

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Russell Simmons

I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Robert A. Heinlein

Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.

Robert A. Heinlein

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Scott Westerfeld

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

Rainbow Rowell

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)