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I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

…stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms’s rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. ‘This is the Brahms of my cellar,’ he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master’s glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. ‘Don’t you like it?’ asked the host. ‘Hmm,’ Brahms muttered. ‘Better bring your Beethoven!’

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

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.

I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don’t like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters’ side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

Rudeness can make me angry.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

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

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’ and other such simple courtesies…Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing… even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate – it slid and melted away.

It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they’ve done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there’s more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child’s first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Man needs music, literature, and painting – all those oases of perfection that make up art – to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.