Nicholas Sparks Quotes

if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

Hi. I haven't insulted you yet, have I?

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.

There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

You know, I just want to say to her (Sarah Palin), just very quickly...F-- you.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

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

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?' As for the girls in Arizona, it's just so different. They're like 'You have really cute dimples. You know that?' 'You have really nice eyes.' 'What's your name? Kellan? That's cool, that's unique.