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Rude Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to…
- The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
- By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard…
- Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
- 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…
- I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
More Rude Quotes
- I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the… — Bryan Adams
- The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try… — Anthony Bourdain
- No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they… — Jo Brand
- You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. — Rita Mae Brown
- America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. — Lord Byron
- The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language… — Sid Caesar
- I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. — Nicolas Cage
- I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so… — Lizzy Caplan
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — Margaret Cavendish
- I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in… — Amy Chua
- If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western,… — Jeremy Clarkson
- Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and… — Maya Angelou