Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one.… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. — James Hervey Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned beef, pickles, frankfurters, the… — Herb Gardner Copy Share Image
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Scholes was probably the best English midfielder since Bobby Charlton. He was such a brilliant long passer that he could choose a… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
