One series proves that television’s mass democracy of rude can still exist today: Little Britain. ibid.
What rudeness there is has a cordon sanitaire placed around it. ibid.
There has always been a war between rude and crude. ibid.
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough. Daniel C Dennett
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. Edmund Burke
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. Oscar Wilde
Comedy was irreverent, rude and bawdy. Michael Scott, Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth I: Democrats, BBC 2013
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar I ii 300-302, Cassius to Brutus et Casca
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter – an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
M de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of rudeness. Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. John Locke
Sir, I hope you are not using the first English dictionary to look up rude words? Blackadder III: Ink & Incapability, Dr Johnson to Prince, BBC 1987