Discourteous Quotes

#1. Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not

C.S. Lewis

#2. I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

John Howard Griffin

#3. Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Robert E. Howard

#4. You don't have to apologize for disliking me, only for being discourteous.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

Alvin Martin

#6. The man who could not be discourteous to a ground-squirrel had sat in the courthouse abetting the cause of grubby-minded little men.

Harper Lee

#7. And then Gwalchmai said, 'No one should distract an ordained knight from his thoughts in a discourteous way, for perhaps he has either suffered a loss or he is thinking about the woman he loves best.

Sioned Davies

#8. Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.

Laura Fitzgerald

#9. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

James Woods

#10. Though he had not done much, perhaps, to improve the lot of man, he had never added to the world's misery. He had never been unkind or discourteous or greedy or dishonest.

Victoria Clayton

#11. As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

Meles Zenawi

#12. There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

Peter Mayle

#13. And this girl, this monster, had a dangerous, complicated gift.

V.E Schwab

#14. And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

Jack Kerouac

#15. A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.

Henrik Ibsen

#16. Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Robert Frost

#17. I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

Nell Zink

#18. There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.

Patrick Leahy

#19. No dream is ever chased alone.

Rahul Dravid

#20. History punishes those that come late to it.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#21. It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

Samuel Johnson

#22. I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

K'naan

#23. Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Joshua Reynolds