Rude Quotes - Page 2

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

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Kindness, Be Kind

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• It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Gestures, Clear

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• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kings

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

  Maurice Baring

  Manners, Ifs, Good Manners

  Maurice Baring (2014). “The Coat Without Seam”, p.58, House of Stratus

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• A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Gentleman, Purpose

  "Look who's talking". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2002.

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• I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

  Dick Wolf

  Work, People, Trying

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• There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

  John Locke

  Communication, Currents, Discourse

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Some thoughts concerning education. An examination of P. Malebranche's opinion of seeing all things in God. A discourse of miracles. Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony, first earl of Shaftesbury. Some familiar letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends”, p.139

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• Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.

  Steven Moffat

  People

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• He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Middle, Conversation, Died

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• Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Mean, Unhappy, Viruses

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• Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Art, Learning

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Family And Friends, Literature, Fool

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press

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• I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

  Mos Def

  Crazy, People, Shy

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• I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems I'm being rude or stupid.

  Sky Ferreira

  Sarcastic, Stupid, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Bores

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• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Dream, Agony, Evil

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• A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Men, Devil, Beast

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• No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Communication, Language, Polite

  Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”

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• I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude.

  Katie Price

  Sexy, Drink, Sexiness

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• New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "E=MO²". Video, 1985.

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• The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

  Paul Theroux

  Sarcastic, Manners, Made

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

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• 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.

  Louise Jameson

  Disappointing, Said, Humiliating

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• And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Joy, Devil

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Conundrum of the Workshops"

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• I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

  Bryan Adams

  Adversity, Police, Pits

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

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• Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Dream, Freedom, Eye

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