“The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.”

“It was a rude, brutal and purposely ugly book. However, it was an honest book.”

“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

“An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.”

“I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.”

“In a rude state of society all great calamities are regarded by the people as judgments of God on the wickedness of man.”

“Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.”

“Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.”

“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”