Kate Nash Quotes

You can't just be crass without being witty. Angry crass is horrible.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Civility is not simply about manners.

I didn't want to annoy anyone or be seen as a diva.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I don't aim to offend.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

I don't see myself as offending people.

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Never insult anyone by accident.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.