Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

I don't think I have the right to give someone advice when I don't know them.

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

If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.

People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.

I have realised that it's important to be a sport, be nice, and know what to speak and when.

Everyone can be rude, and everyone can be kind.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

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

To be rude is as good as being clever.

don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.