#rude

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ↗

— Voltaire

#every #goes #imprudent #least #repent

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#met #people #rude #slam #you

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. ↗

— Alice B. Toklas

#evening #gertrude #her #most #said

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness. ↗

— James Welch

#any #bars #checks #consciousness #constantly

I'm a rather crude cook. ↗

— Dominic West

#crude #i #rather

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#any #bulb #i #i can #light

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#among #away #beheld #chased #contact

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#both #commands #crude #distorted #life