Rude Quotes
553 Rude quotes by 425 unique authors
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You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And…
— Grace Slick
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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
— Benjamin Spock
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
— Paul Theroux
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I don't think there are any rude questions.
— Helen Thomas
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
— Tennessee Williams
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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
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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…
— Victoria Woodhull
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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,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
— William Shakespeare
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He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.
— Daniel Handler
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A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
— Dave Barry
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Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.
— Donita K. Paul
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My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate…
— Robert E. Howard
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Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.
— Daniel Handler
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I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my…
— Janet Evanovich
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You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this…
— William Goldman
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I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.
— Tamora Pierce
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We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only…
— Helen Keller
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Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given…
— Markus Zusak
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Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot…
— N.D. Wilson
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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not…
— Jim Rohn
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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…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
— Mercedes Lackey
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Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost…
— Joel Osteen
Who Wrote These Rude Quotes
425 authors contributed a total of 553 Rude Quotes, led by these top contributors: