"Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness."

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Source : Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

Judith Martin

#Differences Quotes #No Excuses Quotes #Rudeness Quotes

“Cop families have guns in their houses.”
“Knights die in battle,â€ Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. â€œAs ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.”
“I havenâ€™t had trouble with writerâ€™s block. I think itâ€™s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichÃ©d writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesnâ€™t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writerâ€™s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.”
“The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.”
“I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and just start goin', at age six, the first time I did it. I think 14 was when I knew I wanted to do it and promote my own comedy shows at the church. Then, everyone would come.”

Source : "Brandon T. Jackson Interview BIG MOMMA'S: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON". Interview, collider.com. February 17, 2011.
“The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012
“Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Bellings (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...”
“I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.

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