Nicole Richie Quotes

I'm just a swell guy. No, that's a ridiculous notion - if you're being an asshole to people, you're being an asshole, that's all there is to it. It can't be rationalized because you wrote something worthwhile. First obligation is to other people.

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

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

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split.

I'm at the doctor's office. I'm in the waiting room. And there's this guy on his cell phone, talking really loud. Does he think he owns the place? Apparently. I think this is so offensive. But you have to remember: It doesn't take a cell phone to make people rude. People were rude before there were cell phones.

I'm just not going around disrespecting people.

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

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

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

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

I'm not a fan of purposely farting in front of other people. If you have to fart, leave the room.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

I don’t like people who are late.

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

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

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.