Impertinence Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
— Theodor Adorno
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
— William Hazlitt
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
— Anatole France
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It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
— George D. Prentice
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable…
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
— Sivananda
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The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the…
— H.G. Wells
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A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned beef, pickles, frankfurters, the great lusty impertinence…
— Herb Gardner
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days,…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help…
— Robertson Davies
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There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
— Katharine Tynan
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty…
— Helen Keller
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I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded…
— Matt Groening
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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
— Mark Twain
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I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had…
— Samuel Beckett
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