Rude Quotes

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  A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

  Daniel Handler

  Sympathy, People, Trouble

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

  Mick Mars

  Motley Crue

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• Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Kindness

  Cory Booker @CoryBooker, twitter.com. May 17, 2015.

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  How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 08, 2011

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• Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Cutting, People, Literature

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• A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Gentleman

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• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Being Strong, Business

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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• Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Leadership, Strong, Humble

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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• To be rude is as good as being clever.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Clever

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.122

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• You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Witty, Insult

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.38, Bantam

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• When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. when you stay on the high road.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspiration, Faces, Your Face

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• It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

  Salman Rushdie

  Taken, Levels, Violence

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

  Bryant H. McGill

  Enemy, Literature, Difficult

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• A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gentleman, Rudeness, True Gentleman

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• I have a rude thought every three seconds!

  Lee Ryan

  Three, Rudeness, Seconds

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• Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Selfish, Jealous, Conceited

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

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• When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

  Maya Angelou

  Air, Sky, Voice

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Sight, Cynical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

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• It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Running, Long, Polite

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• Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Kindness, Be Kind

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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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• Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.

  Steven Moffat

  People

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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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