Rude Quotes - Page 3

• When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

  Neil Innes

  Dancing, Sound, Television

  Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.

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• America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

  Lord Byron

  America, People, Literature

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• I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

  Bram Stoker

  Lying, Fall, Eye

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.597, Book Jungle

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• We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

  Douglas Coupland

  Writing, Friendly, Software

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “Microserfs: A Novel”, p.49, Harper Collins

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• I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.

  Amy Chua

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

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• We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Self, Giving

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• Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

  Richard Steele

  Silly, Men, Opposites

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• But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

  Ernestine Rose

  Lying, Drinking, Fighting

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

  Phil Knight

  Baseball, Dream, Team

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• If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

  Chris Daughtry

  Color, People, Grain Of Salt

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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

  Christine Lavin

  Want, Egotistical, Wells

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• There is a new world coming and this new world is very rude.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  World, New World

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

  A. P. Herbert

  Men, Smoking, Different

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• MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

  Rex Stout

  Mean

  Rex Stout (1966). “Nero wolfe: Homicide trinity”

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• Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Kids, Years, Three

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

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Speak, Being Rude, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.

  NeNe Leakes

  Successful, Nasty, Fierce

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2014

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• He that is angry at a feast is rude.

  George Herbert

  Angry

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.309

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• Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Boisterous, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.57, Classic Books Company

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

  Mason Cooley

  Gone, Rudeness, Ifs

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• Anybody who is rude to anyone in the service industry is automatically out.

  Matt Bomer

  Service Industry, Industry

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

  John Milton

  Children, Lying, Winter

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1

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

  David Bentley

  Understanding, Wells, Ifs

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• I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

  Michel de Montaigne

  People, Polite

  Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.97, David R. Godine Publisher

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• True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Weakness, Awakening

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. II), 1916.

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