Rude Quotes

553 Rude quotes by 425 unique authors

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own… — Mahatma Gandhi
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My… — William Shakespeare
Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as… — Amy Poehler
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The… — Theodore Roosevelt
The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior. — Judith Martin
There are always proper responses, even to rude questions. — Judith Martin
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure. — Judith Martin
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. — Catherine Crier
Twitter's a funny one, I mean, it's good in some respects but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many… — Dionne Bromfield
It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men,… — Jean de la Bruyere
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and… — Stephen Fry
What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon, — Thomas Burnet
In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is… — Ricky Gervais
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. — Rudy Giuliani
Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making… — Jeff Greenfield
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous! — Bear Grylls
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. — William Cowper
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. — Quentin Crisp
If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you. — Chris Daughtry
There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was… — Paula Deen

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