Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

Disrespect is my biggest pet peeve.

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

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

I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

When I looked them in the face, I saw a crowd of imbeciles.

What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.

My least favorite thing or my pet peeve would be people who literally ignore the other people you're with, or the situation, and they just dive right in and cut off the conversation.

Disrespect is real stuff.

People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

I fart in your general direction.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

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

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.