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When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?

— Jen Lancaster

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems…

— Mary Schmich

“Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It doesn't take a cell phone to make a person rude. There are rude people all over the place. But people are learning. I…

— Martin Cooper

As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while…

— Martin Cooper

Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner…

— Martin Cooper

I am not saying thank you or someone checking their phone while talking to you, it seems our manners are getting worse! Tell us…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Discretion & Good Judgment . . . The flagrant lack of decorum, reckless behavior, and poor judgment exhibited in our world today continues to…

— Susan C. Young

“Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through its wires. If it…

— Ray Bradbury

I was raised by a strong mother who always taught me to speak up, I never had difficulty leaving an uncomfortable situation or cutting…

— Toni Garrn

Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon…

— Rumaan Alam

“Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those…

— Simon Pegg