Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Galifianakis

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Rick Riordan

A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—

Mallory Ortberg

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

Cassandra Clare

She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

Lisa Kleypas

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

John Milton

It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

Bryant H. McGill

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Brother Lawrence

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

Edsger Dijkstra

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

Amy Poehler

Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Daniel Dennett

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,

David Spade

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

Scott Westerfeld

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

Rick Riordan

Mr. D, wearing his leopard-skin jogging suit and rummaging through the refrigerator. He looked up lazily. "Do you mind?" Where's Chiron!" I shouted. How rude." Mr. D took a swig from a jug of grape juice. "Is that how you say hello?" Hello," I amended. "We're about to die! Where's Chiron?

Robert A. Heinlein

Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.

Robert A. Heinlein

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Russell Simmons

I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude.

Stephenie Meyer

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

Thomas Bulfinch

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I would speak up if I see someone being rude to someone.

Norman Douglas

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Maurice Baring

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Lisa Scottoline

Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?

Penn Jillette

It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

John Ruskin

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Mario Cantone

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Mason Cooley

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

Oscar Wilde

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Garth Nix

Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?