78 Quotes About Rudeness

Sometimes the only appropriate word for a person is a rude one.

I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.

Here’s the thing about middle-classpeople. They pretend not to look, but theydo. They were too polite to actually stare.Instead, they did this weird thing ofcatching sight of Will in their field ofvision and then determinedly not lookingat him. Until he’d gone past, at whichpoint their gaze would flicker towardshim, even while they remained inconversation with someone else. Theywouldn’t talk about him, though. Becausethat would be rude.

What a fine thing to be as rude as that with such convictions.

Culpable obtuseness. He should know better. That's one reason why we don't use the a-word, for example, of little children. They can merit the s-word, because there's a malignity that's innate in little kids sometimes, but you can't merit the a-word until you're old enough so that you ought to know better.

Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?''Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

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

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.