rude quotes

A manner rude and wild Is common at your age.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
  The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, introduction.

She was not really bad at heart, But only rather rude and wild; She was an aggravating child.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
  Cautionary  Tales,'Rebecca'.

It'snot a slamat you whenpeoplearerudeit's a slamat the people they've met before.

- F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
The Last  Tycoon, ch.1.

Ma's out, Pa's outlet's talk rude: Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers.

- Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop Flanagan
c.1956  'P, P, B, B, D'.

   When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adamsat under theTree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devilwhispered behind theleaves,'It'spretty, but is it Art?'

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Conundrum of the Workshops'.

The mythical America†that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

-Jonathan Raban
  Hunting Mister Heartbreak, ch.2.