(81 quotes found)
“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
“Sometimes informality breeds rudeness. Maybe companies that are very informal manage to keep stress levels down. But if it's very informal, workers might not know what their boundaries are.”
P.M. Forni
“I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.”
Vanna Bonta
“It's definitely a rude awakening. We're going to have to get better. We're going to have to get better every step of the way.”
Bill Guerin
“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
“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.”
Wyndham Lewis
“It's a rude interruption of that string of nine straight monthly job gains.”
Howard Roth
“Have you seen but a bright lily grow, / Before rude hands have touched it? / Have you marked but the fall o' the snow / Before the soil hath smutched it? . . . O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!”
Ben Jonson
“It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme”
William Cowper
“You should never, ever use profanity because it is rude.”
Michael Kelly
