Flavia Quote by Alan Bradley

“I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where…

— T.H. White

“No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different…

— Lois Lowry

“Do not be threatened by rude people because rudeness is a sign of insecurity.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. If this isn't nice, I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,”

— Sir Hall Caine

“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared…

— Jane Austen

“A man can never be as rude as he feels, which is one of the drawbacks of civilisation.”

— Mary Findlater

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort”

— Julian Fellowes

“The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition…

— William S. Burroughs

“It was an ignorant perception of the past at which most scoffed, but those who were wiser simply shook their heads in embarrassment knowing…

— Sean DeLauder

“The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total…

— Neil Gaiman