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  • If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.

  • If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.175, Simon and Schuster
  • I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

  • 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 finished the sentence gravely.

    J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore
  • A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

  • No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

    The New York Times, January 14, 1962.
  • Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

  • A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.

    "Eric Daman". "America's Next Top Model", April 06, 2011.
  • Children are capable of such open rudeness.

  • Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

  • Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  • Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

  • I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

  • Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

    Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.42, New Directions Publishing
  • Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

  • Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

  • Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

    "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 241, 1955.
  • This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

    Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.26, Orient Blackswan
  • It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

    "Do It for the Kids". Live chat, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.
  • rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

    Elizabeth Bowen (2006). “The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen”, Anchor
  • 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, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
  • Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

    www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.
  • Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

  • It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.

    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.34, Xist Publishing
  • I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.215, Penguin
  • A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  • If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

  • The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.

    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.312
  • Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

  • A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”
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