Top 33 Rude Rudeness Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Rude Rudeness

#1. Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. [ ... ] Aglionby boys, who often thought rudeness was a louder sort of flirting.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

O. Henry

#4. A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?

Patrick McGrath

#6. Rudeness is a means to attract attention, assert power, cover-up ineptitude, deflect personal insecurities, and intimidate meeker people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. Never be put off by rudeness, Mma," she whispered. "It is the rude person who is rude, not you.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.

Marcel Duchamp

#9. 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

#10. I like the way Nepalis point by pouting their lips; they reckon pointing with a finger is rude.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#11. 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

#12. You've just inherited rudeness. We've had to work at it.

John Connolly

#13. I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort

Julian Fellowes

#14. Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?'
'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

J.K. Rowling

#15. It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

Lemony Snicket

#16. If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

Mason Cooley

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

Cindy Sherman

#18. I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.

Sue Grafton

#19. It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter
an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#20. Humans, because they learn more about their predator and vampires because they wouldn't have to go into lengthy speeches about their kind when they are doing their predator bit.

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#21. How rude could you get? She was treating a boy she'd only just met as an inferior being. The only other person I can think of who does that is a Saiyan prince.

Wataru Watari

#22. When we can be centered in ourselves, even for brief periods of time in the face of the pull of the outer world, not having to look elsewhere for something to fill us up or make us happy, we can be at home wherever we find ourselves, at peace with things as they are, moment by moment.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#23. M. de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of rudeness.

Marcel Proust

#24. Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. Eric raised a questioning brow.

"Okay. Then I have to head back to town. Stop talking to me. I have to forget you're here."

"That seems a little rude."

"You're a ghost. Rudeness doesn't figure in.

J.J. Cook

#26. It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most cursory civility. He believed in good manners at the meal table and bad manners almost everywhere else.

Christopher Fowler

#27. Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?'
'Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful.

Eloisa James