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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. -- Eric Hoffer
Rudeness makes me very angry. -- Stephen Graham
Rudeness can make me angry. -- Clive Owen
Rudeness, I think, is the worst. -- Erin Heatherton
Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate. -- Phil Ramone
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect. -- Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength. -- Eric Hoffer
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious. -- Zach Galifianakis
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. -- Paul Theroux
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. -- John Locke
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. -- Quentin Crisp
Rudeness is what gets to me. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value. -- Barney Frank
If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work. -- Cindy Sherman
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. -- Lord Byron
Eric raised a questioning brow."Okay. Then I have to head back to town. Stop talking to me. I have to forget you're here.""That seems a little rude.""You're a ghost. Rudeness doesn't figure in. -- J.J. Cook
Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on. -- Robin Wasserman
Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness. -- Judith Martin
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness. -- Muriel Spark
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. -- Confucius
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none. -- Ben Jonson
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life. -- Samuel Johnson
It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring. -- Daniel Handler
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady. -- O. Henry
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. -- Sivananda
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite. -- Jean de la Bruyere
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. -- Bryant H. McGill
Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. -- J. K. Rowling
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness. -- Rick Warren
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. -- Bill Watterson
A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth. -- Tyra Banks
If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it? -- George Mikes
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
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
There's no excuse for rudeness. -- Tyra Banks
I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults. -- Bryan Burrough
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that. -- Amy Chua
Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world. -- Judith Martin
Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty. -- Judith Martin
Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness. -- James Welch
I'm not a phony-friendly guy and I'm usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some people might take that for rudeness and being mean. If anyone ever got that impression, I apologize. I love all my fans and really appreciate all their support! -- Jesse McCartney
I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nice and pleased to see you - which is so different from London. Maybe I'll end up so tired of smiles and helpfulness that I'll long for the rudeness and cynicism of home. -- Helen George
This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness -- Charlaine Harris
Children are capable of such open rudeness. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people. -- Jane Espenson
There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness. -- Samuel Johnson
It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness! -- Mallory Ortberg
I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. -- Charlotte Bronte
You've just inherited rudeness. We've had to work at it. -- John Connolly
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness. -- Billy Collins
[...] Aglionby boys, who often thought rudeness was a louder sort of flirting. -- Maggie Stiefvater
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness. -- Madame de Stael
Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction. -- Perry Brass
Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality." -- Paulo Coelho
It is rudeness of the highest order to hit a family when they are down. -- John Patrick Hickey
Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled -- Leila Aboulela
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness. -- Nigel Calder
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite. -- William Shakespeare
rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. -- Samuel Johnson
Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults. -- Bryan Burrough
M. de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of rudeness. -- Marcel Proust
When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite. -- Judith Martin
Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself. -- Gautama Buddha
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit... -- Stella Gibbons
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. -- Fernando Botero
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. -- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Regular people are used to rudeness; we get it all the time, we're inured to it. The wealthy aren't; it hurts their feelings, or whatever they have in there. -- Michael Cleverly
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature. -- Jean de la Bruyere
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I don't mean to be rude"?" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely. -- J. K. Rowling
I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that one was speaking to a member of the aristocracy." -- Alan Bradley
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. -- Robert A. Heinlein
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot... -- Robert A. Heinlein
She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life. -- Rebecca West
Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy. -- Irwin Edman

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