Rude Quotes

• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar,'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Sea
  • Angry
  • Ocean

• Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

  

  Cindy Sherman
  • Work
  • Rude

• There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Experience
  • Space
  • Phone

• I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Bore
  • Unintentionally

• The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Truth
  • War
  • Law

• A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Rude

• You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Want
  • Health
  • Find

• If anyone is ever rude to you, then there's no need to hang out with them! Just find the people that make you feel good.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • Good
  • Rude

• ...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • People
  • Actions
  • Dedicated

• Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the Gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my Father anon. 'Tis now a common used Proverb.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Great
  • Father
  • Son

• Don't say the F word, it's rude.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Word
  • Say
  • Rude

• Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Luck
  • Rude

• The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Bear

• My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Terrorist
  • Manners
  • Offensive

• I think if someone was really rude to me in an audition, even someone quite important, I think I'd be, 'What are you doing? Don't talk to me like that!'

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Important
  • Rude

• Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.

  

  Jacques Roumain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Appearance

• I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Listening

• But one thing that's constant is we've always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and they keep us on the map. I always put myself in their position. If I loved someone and had their posters all over my wall and met them and they were rude it would be very hurtful.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Wall
  • Rude

• 'We are going so slow,' Noah said, craning his neck to observe the inevitable queue behind them. 'I think I just saw a tricycle pass us.''Rude.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Rude

• A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Nature
  • Rude

• I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Jokes
  • Rude

• Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,

  

  Hall Caine
  • Comfort
  • Hearts
  • Offered

• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • God
  • Kindness

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