Boorish Quotes

#1. I am in no mood for boorish men. Or their warmongering. "Weapons

Renee Ahdieh

#2. Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

Lynn Coady

#3. Anger bubbled up inside him so strong that he clenched his fist and silently promised his brother that he would pay for his boorish behavior.

Melanie Dickerson

#4. It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker.

Trevanian

#5. To become a poet, the most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

Nikki Giovanni

#6. But what do we expect will become of students, successfully cocooned from uncomfortable feelings, once they leave the sanctuary of academe for the boorish badlands of real life?

Jonathan Franzen

#7. It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean De La Bruyere

#8. To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

Dan Castellaneta

#9. Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Aristotle.

#10. Death is insulting, and I resented its sudden appearance, like an unannounced visit from a boorish relative.

Sue Grafton

#11. There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore.
The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.

Camelia C.

#12. The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

John Ralston Saul

#13. In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

Rand Paul

#14. How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

John Maynard Keynes

#15. Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.

Ann Coulter

#16. I had become Harry Potter. Except I was thirteen and not magic, and my destiny, whatever it was, held no profound purpose.

Tammara Webber

#17. People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money.

Sheldon Richman

#18. The Monastery of the Cenobitical Order was a large-walled compound built seven hundred thousand years ago on a damned-made hill of stone and cement.

Clive Barker

#19. We are a blue planet and an ocean world.

Nainoa Thompson

#20. My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

Kirstie Alley

#21. He decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.

J.M. Barrie

#22. One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.

Richard Carlson

#23. It means 'female dog,'" I'd explained to my sisters, "but it also means 'a woman who's crabby and won't let you be yourself.

David Sedaris

#24. Maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks ...

John Geddes

#25. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

J.C. Ryle