Effrontery Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of…
— Maya Angelou
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more…
— Robert Higgs
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A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder,…
— Groucho Marx
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There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
— Juvenal
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
— Samuel Johnson
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In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that…
— David James Duncan
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You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible.…
— Terry Pratchett
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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if…
— Maya Angelou
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In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver…
— Michael Leunig
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Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch…
— Lord Byron
Who Wrote These Effrontery Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Effrontery Quotes as follows: