Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
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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.
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The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety
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Why give in to rudeness, when you can fight back with kindness.
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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. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
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Almost every author I have ever met had a prodigious sense of entitlement. I suppose if you were the God over an imaginary world, in the book you created, the risk of developing a delusional superiority to others is highly possible.
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Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named.. But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
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Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.
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Culpable obtuseness. He should know better. That's one reason why we don't use the a-word, for example, of little children. They can merit the s-word, because there's a malignity that's innate in little kids sometimes, but you can't merit the a-word until you're old enough so that you ought to know better.
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Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.
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All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.
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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.
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No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
.. When a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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