Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

John Milton

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

Rick Yancey

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

Rick Riordan

A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—

Pink

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

Rachel Caine

That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.

Rachel Caine

Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. “Ladies? After you.” “Rude,” Claire said. “I was being polite!” “Not when you have a flamethrower.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

Mick Mars

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

Stephenie Meyer

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

Thomas Bulfinch

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

Eminem

Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening.

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.

Garth Nix

Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?

Fernando Pessoa

Humanitarianism is rude.

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?

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

Hunter S. Thompson

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

O. Henry

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

Mason Cooley

If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

Mallory Ortberg

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

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.'

Lisa Kleypas

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Lee Ryan

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

Lewis Carroll

Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.