Impolite Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
— Bennett Cerf
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In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
— Russell Brand
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When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you…
— Adam Thirlwell
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Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet…
— Carl Sagan
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Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we…
— Gwen Ifill
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I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
— Russell Lynes
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Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
— Edmund Burke
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
— Robert E. Howard
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When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
— Louis Nizer
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It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.
— Daniel Handler
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Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing…
— Daniel Handler
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So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not…
— William H. Gass
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That's a big nose," he croaked and instantly realized he shouldn't have said something so impolite. I must be light headed, e thought. But the…
— John Flanagan
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I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Oh, God, Shannon. You're blowing my mind." Clint's morning voice was rich with passion. I wanted to correct him and explain that it wasn't his…
— P. C. Cast
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My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,†my mom would say. I considered it…
— Tina Fey
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In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such…
— John Boyne
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You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told…
— Ilona Andrews
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He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.
— Jeaniene Frost
Who Wrote These Impolite Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Impolite Quotes as follows: