Top 100 Rude Quotes
#1. Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but 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.
Stephen King
#2. 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
#3. It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.
Leo Tolstoy
#4. It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
Norman Douglas
#5. I don't want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago.
Mark Zuckerberg
#6. Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror
Horace
#7. They've grown comfortable with their money,' I said. 'They genuinely believe they're entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little.
Don DeLillo
#8. When you come to me
come to me with cake
in your pocket
come to me nicely
with that soft kinda cake
that's mostly icing
come to me ready and rude
bring me angel food
angel food
Ani DiFranco
#9. The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.
Benjamin Disraeli
#10. Moments passed and I continued to stare at Max's profile, his words rocking me in a good way but also wondering how rude it would be if I made out with him in front of Niles.
Kristen Ashley
#11. Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.
Charles Wheelan
#12. You, dragon, are the most - "
"Amazing being you've ever met." It wasn't a question from him.
It was a statement.
"I was going to say the most arrogant son of a bitch."
He blinked. "Well that's rude.
G.A. Aiken
#13. As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.
Jim Parsons
#14. I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude ... I'm never going to say anything personal about myself on stage. That's my new goal.
David Rees
#15. Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.
Steve Martin
#16. Istas, please don't eat my mice. They're very important to me, and besides, it's rude to eat anything you've been introduced to.
Seanan McGuire
#17. This is Bayle's meeting, isn't it?" Kennet asked, looking over his shoulder at the large bronze clock hanging on the wall. "Doesn't he know it's rude to arrive late to your own party?"
"When you arrived late to your own birthday party, you told me that was arriving in style," Linnea reminded him.
Amanda Hocking
#18. Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.
Elizabeth Bowen
#19. Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor's defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death.
Mercedes Lackey
#20. Forgive me, I don't mean to be rude," Red said to the twins. "It's just every time I see you two I'm heartbroken, kidnapped, or homeless.
Chris Colfer
#21. You are usually in a different universe," she said, "one that revolves about you. The Peninsula was full of rude, blustering officers who believed other people had been created to pay them homage. I always thought they were merely silly and best ignored.
Mary Balogh
#22. Russia's 62% of women and only 38% men, many of whom are heavy drinkers, so the battle for the female happiness is a rude one, only the slimmest, the leggiest, the blondest and the sexiest are the winners..
Alexander Vassiliev
#23. We were at another funeral party. I wasn't sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.
Marya Hornbacher
#25. The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.
Luchino Visconti
#26. I would rather be kind and simple and poor than rude and rich.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Holding the phone away from his mouth, Gansey told them, "Adam thinks he saw an apparition at his place."
Ronan eyed Noah. "I'm seeing an apparition right now." Noah made a rude gesture, a hilariously unthreatening act coming from him, like a growl from a kitten.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. A fit body gives you confidence. And there's nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you'll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.
Virat Kohli
#30. Rude or not, she'd accept his offer of help.Then as far as she was concerned, Grant Campbell could go to the devil.
Nora Roberts
#31. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#32. Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse."
"Clarisse?"
"Sibling of yours," Hedge said. "Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential.
Rick Riordan
#33. It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham Lewis
#34. Usually, I avoid the topic by shoving food into my mouth then making "I'm sorry, as you can see, it would be rude for me to speak" hand signals
Libba Bray
#35. Since Thor wasn't there to creatively cuss, Sam did the honors, muttering a few comments that I doubted her grandparents would've approved of.
"Those are just expressions," I added hastily. "In no way was my friend giving you permission to do ... any of those rude and colorful things.
Rick Riordan
#36. Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he's showing me what he really thinks of himself.
Patricia Cornwell
#37. I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.
Derek Landy
#38. Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.
Ray Davies
#39. A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.
Joel Osteen
#40. Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same.
Lois Lowry
#41. What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.
Tom Golisano
#42. Spencer." Mrs. Hastings leaned across the restaurant table. "Don't touch the bread. It's rude to start eating before everyone is seated.
Sara Shepard
#43. I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.
Mos Def
#44. The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.
Leslie Knope
#45. You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!
Bernardino Of Siena
#46. I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.
Meg Cabot
#47. You can tell everything you need to know about a person by the way they treat someone in a service position. If you're on a date with someone and they're rude to the waiter, shut it down.
Isaac Oliver
#48. Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.
Bisco Hatori
#49. 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
#50. I just stared after him, wondering what in the hell crawled up his butt. Then I ogled his rude butt and thought, "nice ass" but shook myself and remembered that he needed a swift kick there not an appreciative stare..
Fisher Amelie
#51. I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
Kate Beckinsale
#52. There had seemed no other way to view her, not until that moment when he'd fallen from the window. Rude shock: running down the lawn, the turf exploding from the bullets' impact, he had wondered, only once and without understanding his own feeling of loss, exactly what he was leaving behind.
Meredith Duran
#53. Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I enjoy a good jest.'
'You are dreadfully rude,' I said to him.
He sighed. 'That wasn't the slightest bit funny.
Danielle L. Jensen
#54. You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.
Yoko Ono
#55. But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#56. They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.
Anthony Liccione
#57. The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.
Sid Caesar
#58. I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Bryan Adams
#59. Cath wasn't trying to make new friends here. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude.
Rainbow Rowell
#60. Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
Madeline Carroll
#61. Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
John Dryden
#62. Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.
Jane Horrocks
#63. Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#64. Does he behave in rude or improper ways?"
"He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.
Lisa Kleypas
#65. When a Southern woman offers you a homecooked meal, you're only rude if you refuse. That goes for seconds and thirds too, by the way." -Ruby Watts
Brandy Heineman
#66. He's not tactically rude," his wife explains. "He's sincerely rude. He knows everyone thinks of him as a character but he doesn't think of himself that way. Steven lives inside his head." When
Michael Lewis
#67. The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#68. Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
Clive James
#69. Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#70. We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
Douglas Coupland
#71. It's rude to run off a guest.
It's rude to wear out your welcome.
Ted Dekker
#72. No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite .
- Jean-Claude
Laurell K. Hamilton
#73. Are you Hannah's boyfriend?"
... Marco's reply was, "Nope. She won't let me be."
Beth had immediately turned her cute look of consternation on me. "That's really rude, Hannah.
Samantha Young
#74. No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
Jo Brand
#75. Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.
Emma Thompson
#76. On the other hand, if these four-Mr. Graces, the brutish Frank, the mysterious Mr. Liu, and rude little Henry-were the only company John had had for a hundred and sixty-odd years, it explained a lot about his brooding.
Meg Cabot
#77. If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.
Charles Darwin
#78. I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
Nicolas Cage
#79. The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect ... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
Letitia Baldrige
#81. It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk ... Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.
Damon Albarn
#82. Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Thomas Gray
#83. In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thought. They're so graceful and polite. And I - the white barbarian. It is true.
Philip K. Dick
#84. A rude tourist was looking at paintings in a museum. He didn't find anything interesting and turned to the attendant while pointing to a large frame. Tourist: (making an ugly face) Is this what you call art? Attendant: No sir, this is what we call a mirror.
Johnson C. Philip
#85. It's more difficult to be loving than rude.
Be kind anyway while you could.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Some people leave artwork, some people do rude things, other people then turn those rude things into nice things.
Peter Molyneux
#87. A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
Henry Ward Beecher
#88. Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.
Donita K. Paul
#89. The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen
he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
Susanna Moodie
#90. My other hand?' Lopen said. 'The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would want to know, so you can prepare to be insulted.
Brandon Sanderson
#91. If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!
Elizabeth Wordsworth
#92. The idea of Jehovah was born here ... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.
Herman Melville
#93. A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant McGill
#94. He was as absurd as an Athenian demagogue, about whom Dr Faure had that morning been characteristically rude, since they were foreign, given to unnatural vices, and favoured democracy. Being thirteen, it was the unnatural vices that interested us.
Jonathan Grimwood
#95. Not to be rude, but it was all pointless," I noted from across the room. Four eyes narrowed at me. "What? I said 'not to be rude'. That's like saying 'God bless them' right after you say bad things about someone. It means it doesn't count!
Molly Harper
#97. It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
Brandon Stanton
#98. Thus earth of late so rude, So shapeless, man, till now unknown, became.
Ovid
#99. Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.
Mario Testino
#100. Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
Gwen Ifill
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
