Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ben Jonson

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Baldacci

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

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 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.

David Bentley

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

Becca Fitzpatrick

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

Jimmy Fallon

A new poll found that almost 70 percent of voters say that whoever our next president is, they must have political experience. You know, because it would be rude to say 'anyone but Donald Trump.'

Edward Carpenter

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

Louise Jameson

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

O. Henry

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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.

Cassandra Clare

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.

Cassandra Clare

Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?

George Herbert

He that is angry at a feast is rude.

Christine Lavin

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

Fernando Pessoa

Humanitarianism is rude.

John Milton

It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

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.

Cassandra Clare

She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

Muriel Spark

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Mindy Kaling

Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.

Mike Birbiglia

In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized I didn't want it. It was a rude awakening. When it wasn't picked up, I was crushed, but then in retrospect I've made two films and produced three one-man shows since then. It's the luckiest thing that happened in my life.