It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!” — william hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. — Sir Fulke Greville 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
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Do it, my fellow Americans! Do it for every adolescent anomic skank genius cloistered in his room, getting cranked, rabidly humping his… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is… — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
“The maxim, by which we commonly conduct ourselves in our reasonings, is, that the objects, of which we have no experience, resemble… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!” — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness. — Plato Copy Share Image
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
