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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Rita Mae Brown

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

John Ralston Saul

It can get pretty annoying, and if there is something that is so important just put it on silent or vibrating alert. It's very rude and distracting.

Sarah Nelson

If Bank of America and other companies think they are buying peace from reparations activists with these million-dollar contributions, they are in for a rude surprise.

John Carlisle

Any grass-roots organization or group of individuals that come together often have an impact with local officials when they're reasonable. If someone's indignant, rude or loud, reasonable people get turned off. It's almost like they click a switch off in my brain when they get belligerent, and I almost don't hear some positives they may have.

Bill Long

Bitches. It's a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.

Barbra Streisand

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

Lee Ryan

If your supervisor is mean or rude to you, it increases your workplace deviance because it makes you angry and frustrated.

Timothy Judge

I remember not wanting to be rude, but I would aim to miss.

Paul Moriarty

You've got some hotel rooms facing into that area. It could be a pretty rude awakening for some hotel guests.

Anne Hayden

You have to handle it politely, ... Don't be rude.

Hilka Klinkenberg

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

All of these things lead to a world with more stress, more chances for people to be rude to each other.

Peter Post

He's very calm and he's just telling us about his life. He's not rude.

Rebecca Tejada

It is decidedly rude to make mistakes in e-mail, because the recipient will then have difficulty reading and understanding the message.

Letitia Baldrige

It serves as a rude awakening when they show up and they realize 'Boy, it never occurred to me this might not be the right place.' ... In my mind, that is the function of really bad counseling.

Barmak Nassirian

B.S.. I could have been the president of the United States, and she was going to be rude to me.

Joe Veronese

It's ludicrous, ... I'm not going to dignify his rude, disrespectful comments with a response. I'm not going to say anything bad about him. He's a great guy. He's just misguided and misinformed.

Joey Gilbert

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Paul Gallico

It is not proper to look over someone's shoulder to see what book they are reading or what they are typing. It's rude.

Dianne Daniels

I've progressed from being a conceited brat during the early years. I was very rude to people when I think back on it.

Jeremy Spencer

Obnoxious, degrading to me and downright rude.

Mick Mccarthy

They're rude and not as talented as they think they are. I won't mince words here but they've had a go at me personally.

Phil Collins

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.

Sean Connery

I was with one of my girlfriends, and one of her friends is (Voigt's) goddaughter, and I had no idea who we were going to have dinner with, ... Most Hollywood actors out here are very snobby, very rude, and he was just very nice. He doesn't treat you like you're not a person.

Thomas Mcdaniel

They were freaked out, they were rude, they were hostile. They were doing what they were asked not to do.

Tom Crosby

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Claudia Vercellotti

I pulled up to the gate and a car pulls in behind me and five guys were getting out saying they wanted the car back. They got rude.

Don Dusart

But the people I've talked to that are true fans really resent his decision to go compete against his alma mater and the school he did so much for as a coach. It's going to be pretty interesting to see. But I would suspect he could have a pretty rude reception. . .

Terry Dean

It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was surrounded by a bake house, a milk house, a smokehouse, a chicken house with '44 big hens,' a workhouse, a cow house, and a barn that housed '30 big horned beasts.' .

Robert Reed

But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.

Boris Johnson

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

Alexander Chase

When they say all power boaters are rude, I just don't think that's true.

George Ward

There will be a rude awaking early next year. We expect first-quarter gross domestic product to contract.

Andreas Scheuerle

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible

Nobody of importance has spoken to me yet. It's not Virginia. She was nice and respectful. Her staff was rude, disrespectful—all we wanted was some information to keep us calm.

Patricia Johnson

If he doesn't respect me he should at least respect the position (of match referee), but he made matters worse for himself with his dismissive and rude attitude.

Clive Lloyd

They became very rude and abusive to our staff and we took the decision to ... refuse them travel.

Richard Goodfellow

Everyone wants to talk to us now, and it's annoying. It's kind of like, you know, 'Go away.' But you don't want to be rude.

Kelly Osbourne

Rude might be pushing it, but I think there was a time, before we got here, that maybe there was indifference. Oakmont has had a reputation for doing things that are not public-friendly.

Rod Metzler

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Douglas Coupland

We have computers to help us with the returns, but no way would we ever have a computer answer the phone. It's rude and it aggravates people.

Lee Densmore

I don't get Robbie Williams. I think he seems rude and he's always getting his knickers off.

Gwyneth Paltrow

(People not of the Hispanic community) perceive it as being rude or not listening when really it's just a cultural difference.

Leslie James

This administration has devoted a lot of energy to intimidating its own officials so they won't talk to reporters without scripts and bullying reporters so they won't risk losing their access by asking rude questions or trying to play blame games.

John Walcott

If you're coming off a horrible day, the last thing you want to do is deal with somebody who is being rude. There are always going to be some people who have had a little too much (to drink), and they just shove their arm through and say, 'Hey, sign this.' I just look at those guys.

Patrick Sheehan

It's just rude not to let your host know you've changed your plans.

Nikki Andrews

I would never do anything like that to her, even if she isn't my favorite person in the world. It was something stupid and rude.

Dana Convissar

The best and most considerate thing to do is to speak openly about the inequities of the bill. Presuming that people are going to split it equally is rude and inappropriate.

Peter Post