Top 39 Impolite Quotes

#1. They say we fear only what we don't understand. And, indeed, it's very hard to understand why doormen and ushers are so important, so arrogant, and so majestically impolite. When I read serious articles I feel exactly the same vague fear.

Anton Chekhov

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#2. Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

W. H. Auden

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#3. Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic.

Thomm Quackenbush

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#4. I'll tell you why I'm Shirley," Count Olaf said. "I'm Shirley because I would like to be called Shirley, and it is impolite not to do so.

Lemony Snicket

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#5. Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Edmund Burke

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#6. An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

John Battelle

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#7. Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#8. You call that evening the odds? You demolished them."
Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one."
"I noticed."
"I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.

Ilona Andrews

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#9. Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#10. A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#11. Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners.

Philip K. Dick

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#12. Oh, God, Shannon. You're blowing my mind. Clint's morning voice was rich with passion.
I wanted to correct him and explain that it wasn't his mind I was blowing, but my mother had taught me it was impolite to speak when one's mouth was full ...

P.C. Cast

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#13. In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

John Boyne

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#14. For reasons I can only guess, my mother always instructed me that it was impolite to tell the truth ... Whatever she lacked in versimilitude, she more than made up for in stealth.

Phillip DePoy

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#15. When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.

Adam Thirlwell

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#16. I simply hate the people who have no good words for anyone, who is impolite & who don't respect anyone.

Prathima Bhandary

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#17. It is better to be kind than be impolite.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#18. I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Jeremy Clarkson

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#19. Why were the other angels attacking you?"
"It's impolite to ask the victim of violence what they did to be attacked.

Susan Ee

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#20. To discuss the reality of our global position is considered impolite.

Robert Jackson Bennett

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#21. 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

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#22. I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

Ashley Madekwe

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#23. Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!

Anthony Liccione

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#24. That's a big nose," he croaked and instantly realized he shouldn't have said something so impolite. I must be light headed, e thought. But the face smiled. The teeth seemed inordinatley white against the dark beard and skin.
The only one I have," he said.

John Flanagan

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#25. If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

Adriana Lima

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#26. He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.

Jeaniene Frost

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#27. My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. "You don't know their situation," my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn't even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald's food turns into cold nonfood.

Tina Fey

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#28. I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing
is impolite.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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#29. I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#30. If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

Steven Weinberg

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#31. I was raised not to talk about money. It was considered impolite.

Jamie Johnson

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#32. I'm pretty sure you just kissed me."
"Yes, I did. Shall I apologize?"
"What for?"
"It was terribly impolite. I didn't ask your permission.

Ruthie Knox

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#33. He says to land," Tharkay translated, with improbable brevity; at Laurence's frowning look he added, "and he calls us a great many impolite names; do you wish them all translated?

Naomi Novik

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#34. A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

Martin Schoeller

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#35. In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Russell Brand

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#36. To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.

Manoj Bhargava

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#37. Likewise, if we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

Carl Sagan

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#38. The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

Patrick O'Brian

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#39. Everyone will look. Even if they think it's impolite, still they will look.

Lucy Christopher

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