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ROMANCE -- ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN
ROUTE 66 --- ROYALTY
RUDENESS

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ROMANCE

see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links


The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight,
when one sees half with the eye and half with
the fancy.
--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.
_Intuitions and Summaries Of Thought_ [1862]

Romance is rape embellished with meaningful looks.
--Andrea Dworkin (1946—2005)
American feminist.
"Philadelphia Inquirer" [21 May 1995]

The moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate.
--Christopher Fry (1907—2005)
English dramatist.
"The Lady's Not for Burning", act 3 [1949]

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape
bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 238 [1882].

For a man, romantic love is worship.
He doesn't want to do great things
with a woman, he wants to do them
for her.
--Irma Kurtz
Journalist and author,
_Malespeak_ [1986]

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Torture, pure hell, worse than anything I could imagine.
--Robin Givens on her marriage to Mike Tyson in an
interview with Barbara Walters; quoted in "Newsweek" [1988].

and note:

I took her off her feet. I suaved her.
--Mike Tyson (b. 1966)
American professional boxer and heavyweight champion.
Comment about Robin Givens, quoted in Phil Berger
_Blood Season: Tyson and The World of Boxing_ [1989].

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Because of you there's a song in my heart.
Because of you my romance had its start.
Because of you the sun will shine,
The moon and stars will say you're mine,
and never to part.

I only live for your love and your kiss.
It's paradise to be near you, like this.
Because of you, my life is now worthwhile,
And I can smile,
Because of you.

--"Because Of You" [1940 song]
words and music by Arthur Hammerstein and Dudley Wilkinson

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Men always want to be a woman's first love.
That is their clumsy vanity. We women have
a more subtle instinct about things. What we
like is to be a man's last romance.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_A Woman of No Importance_, act 2 [1893]


To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young_ [1894]

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I am looking for a man who is sensitive
and caring and macho in emergencies.
--cartoon caption

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These are entries to a competition asking for a
rhyme with the most romantic first line but least
romantic second line:

Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss
but I only slept with you, cause I was pissed.

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's
empty and so is your head.

Of loving beauty you float with grace
If only you could hide your face.

I thought that I could love no other
Until, that is, I met your brother.

Kind, intelligent, loving and hot
This describes everything you are not.

I want to feel your sweet embrace
But don't take that paper bag off of your face.

I love your smile, your face, and your eyes—
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!

Every time I see your face
I wish I were in outer space.

My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife,
Marrying you screwed up my life.

I see your face when I am dreaming
That's why I always wake up screaming.

My love you take my breath away
What have you stepped in to smell this way.

My feelings for you no words can tell
Except for maybe "go to hell".

What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.

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ROOSEVELT (FRANKLIN)

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see: "DEPRESSION (THE GREAT)"
see: "POLITICS"
see: "WORLD WAR II"
see: "PEOPLE" for other related links


If anything happened to that man [Roosevelt],
I couldn’t stand it. He is the truest friend,
he has the farthest vision; he is the greatest
man I have ever known.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55].
In Kenneth Pendar _Adventures in Diplomacy: Our French Dilemma_ [1945].

[After a 1933 meeting:]
A second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher.
Quoted in James MacGregor Burns _Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox_ [1956].

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind
him in other men the conviction and the will to
carry on.
--Walter Lippmann (1889—1974)
American journalist.
In New York _Herald Tribune_ "Roosevelt is Gone" [14 April 1945].

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Roosevelt is a fraud from snout to tail.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
Diary [6 October 1939].


[Of Roosevelt:]
He was always a mite ahead of them [Wilkie and Dewey],
finding new victims to loot and new followers to reward,
flouting common sense and boldly denying its existence,
demonstrating by his anti-logic that two and two made
five, promising larger and larger slices of the moon. His
career will greatly engage historians, if any good ones
ever appear in America, but it will even more interest
psychologists. He was the first America to penetrate to
the real depths of vulgar stupidity. He never made the
mistake of overestimating the intelligence of the
American mob. He was its unparalleled professor.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
Diary entry [15 April 1945], quoted in Irene Taylor and Alan Taylor
_An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists_, pp 195-6 [2000].

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I hope your committee will not permit doubts as
to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block
the suggested legislation [the Bituminous Coal
Conservation Act of 1935].
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933-45].
Letter to Samuel B. Hill (Chairman of House committee) [6 July 1935].




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ROUTE 66

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see: "AUTOMOBILES"
see: "THE FIFTIES"
see: "MEMORIES"
see: "TRAVEL"


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"He Gets His Kicks on Route 66"

By Joanne Kaufman
The Wall Street Journal [29 April 2003]

[...] The 77-year-old "all-weather" route was the first road
from Chicago to Los Angeles. Before its first right-of-way was
purchased, the only way west was through the northern terrain
— from Chicago to Denver to San Francisco. In the '30s, Route
66 was the street of dreams for migrant workers; in the '40s,
Gen. George S. Patton and his troops trained in towns along
the route; in the '50s, Route 66 carried tourists to the Grand
Canyon and to Disneyland, as well as workers seeking
employment in California's burgeoning aerospace industry.

But the advent of the interstate highway system and the speed
and ease of air travel made many deep six Route 66 . Now, the
Mother Road is the mother lode for those on nostalgia trips and
sentimental journeys, and for those still in thrall to that
quintessential American passion: the open road. [...]

Mr. Conkle was nine when he took his first trip on Route 66,
a mostly two-lane road composed of asphalt, Portland cement
and gravel that originally followed the path of the railroad. He
has cherished memories of the two-headed snake, a big attraction
just outside Gallup, N.M.; the concrete-thick milkshakes at Ted
Drew's in St. Louis; and the peanut butter pie at the aptly named
Midpoint Café in Adrian, Texas.

Later, when Mr. Conkle, a former Marine, was stationed in
California, he drove home to Indiana on you know what. "I think
I've changed more than the road has changed," he says. "When
I was young I didn't appreciate it. I just took it for granted. I
enjoyed it, but it was just a way to get back and forth. But I
think I wanted something to do, so about 10 years ago I went
to a Route 66 Rendezvous," an annual conclave of asphalt
and automobile addicts.

"When I went on the road more and met foreign tourists, they
were very much involved and impressed with Route 66. Their
dream had been to come and travel it, and that made me think
'do they know something I don't know,'" recalls Mr. Conkle, who
became galvanized and began reading books and doing research.
"When I think of Route 66 I think of my grandparents. It reminds
me of the way America was." [...]




ROYALTY

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see: "ARISTOCRACY"
see: "GOVERNMENT"
see: "KINGS"
see: "POWER"
see: "TITLES"
see: "PEOPLE" for other related links


When I appear in public people expect me to
neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and
swish my tail — none of which is easy.
--Anne, Princess Royal (b. 1950)
In "Observer" [22 May 1977].

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Noël Coward was always ready with a wry comment
apropos the grand public occasion. While watching
the television coverage of the Coronation procession,
he saw that the coaches carrying the dignitaries to
the Abbey had their hoods up because of the rain,
but the very ample Queen of Tonga persisted in
waving to the crowds with the hood of her carriage
down. Sitting opposite the Queen was a tiny man,
less than half her size. Someone turned to Coward
and asked:

'Who's that little chap with her?'

Coward replied: 'That's her lunch.'

--_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_
[2005] Introduced by Edward Leeson, "Royalty"

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Men will never be free until the last king is
strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
--Denis Diderot (1713—1784)
French writer and philosopher.
Quoted in Félix Martí-Ibáñez _Tales of Philosophy_ [1967].

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At long last I am able to say a few words of my own. I have never
wanted to withhold anything, but until now it has not been
constitutionally possible for me to speak.

A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as King and Emperor,
and now that I have been succeeded by my brother, The Duke of
York, my first words must be to declare my allegiance to him.
This I do with all my heart.

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the
Throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind
I did not forget the country or the Empire which as Prince of Wales,
and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. But
you must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible
to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my
duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support
of the woman I love.

--Edward VIII (1894—1972)
King [1936], afterwards, the Duke of Windsor.
Radio broadcast following his abdication [11 December 1936].

& see:

Hark the herald angels sing
Mrs. Simpson's pinched our king.
--anon.
(Sung after Edward VIII abdicated.)

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The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be
only five Kings left — the King of England, the
King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of
Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
--King Farouk (1920—1965)
King of Egypt [1936-52].
Quoted in "Life" [10 April 1950], as quoted in Fred R.
Shapiro (ed.) _The Yale Book of Quotations_ [2006].

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Francis or Franz Joseph (1830—1916),
emperor of Austria [1848-1916].

The emperor was basically a simple man. On one
occasion he and two companions were out hunting
near Bad Ischl in Austria, dressed in hunting clothes.
A passing peasant stopped his cart to offer them a
lift. As they were some way from the lodge, they
accepted and soon fell into conversation with their
benefactor. The peasant asked one his passengers
who he was. 'The king of Saxony,' was the supercilious
reply. The peasant nodded and asked the next man
the same question. 'The king of Bavaria,' said the
second passenger. 'And you?' said the peasant,
indicating Francis Joseph, 'I suppose you are the
emperor of Austria?'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.]

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There are no laurels for the lazy ... If by bad luck I
am ever captured I command you — and you will
answer for it with your head — that in my absence
you will disregard my orders, that you will advise my
brother, and that the state will stoop to no unworthy
act to achieve my liberation. On the contrary, in
such an event I order that even greater energy shall
be displayed.
--Frederick II [Frederick the Great] (1712—1786)
King of Prussia [1740—1786].
(To Podewils [7 March 1741].)

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If I had not been born to inherit the crown
I would have been a yokel myself.
--Henri IV [Henry of Naverre] (1553—1610)
King of France [1589-1610].
(After the 1594 uprising.)


People like you are all scoundrels. I do not
mind if a hundred have hanged themselves.
--Henri IV [Henry of Naverre] (1553—1610)
King of France [1589-1610].
In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 380 [2004].
Cohan & Major explain:
The king harshly rebuffs a petitioner, brother of
a woman who has hanged herself and six young
children, after being made destitute by the taille
(land tax) and forced to sell her cow.


I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom
so poor that he is unable to have a chicken
in his pot every Sunday.
--Henri IV [Henry of Naverre] (1553—1610)
King of France [1589-1610].
In Hardouin de Péréfixe _Histoire de Henry le Grand_ [1681].

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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Henry IV, Part 2_, III, i, l. 31 [1596-99]

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Despite the equality which democracy seeks, it
nevertheless is in constant struggle to keep up
with the Joneses. We boast that we have no royalty
in America, and we disdain all that it implies, but
what American has ever been invited to the Court
of St. James who has not accepted?

And though we frown upon kings and queens,
we nevertheless, have our "copper kings," our
"asparagus kings" our "cotton queens," and our
"Sugar Bowl queens."

But it is a good and healthy sign that we never
outgrow our love of fairy stories, of humor, of
heroes and saints, and even of princesses.

--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular
preacher to appear on television.
_Life Is Worth Living_ (Fifth Series) [1957]

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All kings is mostly rapscallions.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, ch. XXIII [1884]

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The king is dead — long live the king!
--anon.
(First used upon the death of King Charles VIII of France [1461].)

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(The following section regards Queen Elizabeth, the
Queen Mother (1900—2002), who was the widow of
King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II
(b. 1926), the present British sovereign. Following that
are some thoughts about HM Queen Elizabeth II.)

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
saw almost all the world's other crowns and thrones
perish — those of her husband's cousins in Germany
and Russia, Austria, Turkey, Italy, all the great
empires. The nations dominating today's headlines
— Israel and its enemies, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia
— didn't exist [in 1905], nor, for that matter, did
the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Kingdoms
waned, but rarely rose. In a demotic age, Yankee
Doodle came to London in the form of a peanut
farmer who, on being presented to Her Majesty,
kissed her smack on the lips. Long after the rest
of the world had forgotten Jimmy Carter, the Queen
Mum included him in her list of post-prandial "anti-
toasts" to various bêtes noires — Idi Amin, Robert
Mugabe and the former U.S. President, "the only
man, since the death of my dear husband, to have
had the effrontery to kiss me on the mouth."
--Mark Steyn (b. 1959)
Canadian journalist.
"Detecting the steel fist beneath her pastel chiffon"
_National Post_ (Canada) [1 April 2002]

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When it was suggested during the worst days of
WWII that she go to Canada, or at least send the
two princesses there, she replied: "The children
will not leave without me. I will not leave
without the king. And the king will never leave."

Her very long life must be regarded as a tribute
to the preservative powers of gin. Several of her
staff were known to be gay, and when some of
them were slow to answer her request for a drink,
she is reported to have said, "I don't know what
you two old queens are doing, but this old
queen is dying of thirst."

Despite cutbacks at Buckingham Palace, the
Queen Mother was allowed to carry on being
transported in helicopters. "The chopper
has changed my life as conclusively as that
of Anne Boleyn," she commented.

--selections from article by Paul Levy in the WSJ.

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I'm homeless and a republican.
But I am here because people had respect for old
King George, who was a nice man even if he was
a royal. And Elizabeth was beautiful. She didn't
aggravate people like the present Queen and her
repulsive children. She represents the England
I remember as a young woman. It was all God,
Queen and country then. I'm here for the sake
of nostalgia. Because it all ends here, doesn't
it?
--Eve, British mourner quoted in The Guardian [1 April 2002]

Oh, I'm a huge fan of the monarchy," said Bruce
Pope, 44, from Washington DC. "I wanted to come
to say my farewells to a great lady. She was the
same age as my grandmother, so I felt a connection.
It's lucky, because I leave for home tomorrow, so I
got to sign the book before I left — and hey, there's
one of the buddies I made in the queue! Hey there!
Or should I say g'day!"
--another mourner quoted in same article


[During World War II:]
London's East End, with its shipping docks,
warehouses, ironworks and factories, was
the hardest hit. It was where the poor lived,
crowded together in cheap housing. The
fiercest bombing was at night. Houses
collapsed around families; shrapnel hit them
as they ran down streets. Hundreds died
nightly, and their bodies were stacked in
temporary mortuaries. King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth, parents of the reigning
Queen Elizabeth II, stayed in London. The
north side of their palace was damaged by
a bomb. "I'm glad we've been bombed," the
queen said. "It makes me feel I can look
the East End in the face."
--George DeWan,
"When War Comes to Your Doorstep: Londoners Who
Endured the "Blitz" Identify With America's Pain"

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To be, or what.
--Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
West Indian poet and dramatist; winner
of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Poetry.
Describing Sly Stallone's version of Hamlet
to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth when they
were chatting about how Americans speak
Shakespearean verse [1989].


She just cracked up — she's one helluva relaxed woman.
--Derek Walcott, describing Her Majesty's
reaction to his Shakespeare joke, quoted
in Brian Hoey,
_Her Majesty: Fifty Regal Years_ [2001]


The former United States President George H. W. Bush
recalls a visit to Buckingham Palace in 1989 when he
noticed an unusual three-legged silver dish which
intrigued him. 'What is that?', I asked Her Majesty.
She replied, 'I don't know. You gave it to me.'
--In Brian Hoey _Her Majesty: Fifty Regal Years_ [2001].

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I am Xerxes, great king, king of kings, the king of all
countries which speak all kinds of languages, the king
of the entire big far-reaching earth.
--Xerxes I (519 B.C.—465 B.C.)
Persian king [486-465 B.C.].
Foundation tablet at Persepolis,
in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_ [2004].
(Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis.)

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diadem [DY-uh-dem], noun:
1. A crown.
2. An ornamental headband worn (as by Eastern monarchs) as a badge of royalty.
3. Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
transitive verb: To adorn with a diadem; to crown.

royalist [roy`al-ist]
An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England,
or of the Bourbons in France); one attached to
monarchical government.




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RUDENESS

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see: "BOLDNESS"
see: "MANNERS"
see: "NASTINESS"
see" "OFFENSE"
see: "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for other related links


A person who is nice to you, but rude
to the waiter, is not a nice person.
--Dave Barry (b. 1947)
American humorist.
_Dave Barry Turns 50_ [1998]

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is
displayed? The shallowest understanding, the
rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
Attributed in George Crabb _English Synonymes_, p. 200 [1826].

I am one of those people who have to be
known exactly the right amount to be liked.
I am standoffish with strangers, a form of
shyness which whisky cured when I was still
able to take it in the requisite quantities.
I am terribly blunt, having been raised in
the English tradition which permits a
gentleman to be almost infinitely rude if
he keeps his voice down. It depends on a
complete assurance that a punch on the nose
will not be the reply.
--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
Letter to Charles Morton [1 January 1948].

That man is guilty of impertinence, who considers not
the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation,
or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays
no regard to the company he is in.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
Quoted in "The Spectator", # 132 [1 August 1711].

Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_

Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
--Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (c. 1630—1685)
English poet.
_An Essay On Translated Verse_ [1684]

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Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey
will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1744]

& see:

Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
--Giovanni Torriano
_Italian Proverbs_ [1666]

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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the
British which amazes the Americans, who
do not understand studied insult and can
only offer abuse as a substitute.
--Paul Gallico (1897—1976)
American sportswriter and novelist.
_New York Times_ [14 January 1962]

Villainy, when detected, never gives up,
but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
--Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.
"The Bee", # IV [1759]

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The Passionate State of Mind_ [1954]

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator know as "The Great Agnostic."
_The Christian Religion_ [1882]

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality of the mind,
but from several—from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due
to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought,
from contempt of others, from jealousy.
--Jean de La Bruyère (1645—1696)
French essayist and moralist.
_Les Caractères_ [1688]

Vices are often hid under the name of virtues, and the practice of them
followed by the worst consequences. I have seen ladies indulge their
own ill-humor by being very rude and impertinent, and think they
deserve approbation by saying, 'I love to speak the truth.'
--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [née Pierrepont] (1689—1762)
English aristocrat and writer.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou
_Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 381 [1882].

They asked Lucman, the fabulist,
'From whom did you learn manners?'
He answered: 'From the unmannerly.'
--Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 1184—1291?)
Iranian poet.
_The Gulistan_ (Rose Garden) [1258]

What! canst thou say all this and never blush?
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Titus Andronicus_, V, i [early 1590s]

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1. Hilaire Belloc was kneeling at Mass in Westminster
Cathedral. A sacristan whispered to him, 'Excuse me,
sir, we stand here.'
Belloc: 'Go to hell.'
Sacristan: 'I'm sorry, sir, I didn't know you were Catholic.'

2.G.K. Chesterton was a vast man physically — over twenty
stone, say three hundred pounds. During the war a patriotic
lady accused him of cowardice.
Patriotic lady: 'Why aren't you out at the Front?'
Chesterton: 'Madame, if you will go round to the side,
you'll see that I am.'

The stories are typical — Belloc rude to the polite
stranger, Chesterton polite to the rude stranger.

--F. J. Sheed
_The Church and I_ [1976]

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A true and genuine Impudence is ever the Effect
of Ignorance, without the least Sense of it.
--Sir Richard Steele (1672—1729)
Irish-born essayist and dramatist.
23 March 1711 edition of "The Spectator" [1711-12]


Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in
'speaking their minds.' A man of this make will say a rude thing
for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior,
full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his
fortune.
--Sir Richard Steele (1672—1729)
Irish-born essayist and dramatist.
[8 April 1713] issue of "The Guardian" (newspaper pub. March— October 1713).

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
British poet, poet laureate [1850-92]

Tennyson was entertaining a Russian nobleman
on his house on the Isle of Wight. One morning
the Russian set off on a shooting expedition,
returning later that day with the proud news
that he had shot two peasants. Tennyson
politely corrected his guest's pronunciation:
'You mean two pheasants,' he said. 'No,'
replied the Russian,' 'two peasants. They
were insolent, so I shot them.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.]

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable
one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies
and seek and find the pleasanter features of an
experience.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
In "The North American Review" [1906].

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[Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates):]
Sometimes being a bitch is all you have to hold on to.
--Tony Gilroy (screenplay)
"Dolores Claiborne" [1995 film]

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blackguard [BLAG-uhrd], noun:
1. A rude or unscrupulous person; a scoundrel.
2. A person who uses foul or abusive language.

brusque (adjective) [brêsk]
Rudely curt, offensively blunt,
gruff, or short with someone.

churlish (adjective) [chêrl-ish]
Like a churl: rude, burly, boorish, vulgar;
difficult to work or communicate with.

contumely [kon-TYOO-muh-lee]; noun:
1. Rudeness or rough treatment arising from
haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence.
2. An instance of contemptuousness in act or
speech.

effrontery [ih-FRUN-tuh-ree], noun:
Insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; insolence.


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