It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Source: One of the Imaginary Letters exchanged between Lewis and Ezra Pound in Little Review (Chicago, May 1917).
-- Wyndham Lewis, (Nov 18 1882-1957), English author, painter; He founded the abstract Vorticist movement, which, in painting and literature before WW I, sought to relate art to the industrial process.