Impertinent Quotes

36 quotes by 32 authors

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be… — Catherine Marshall
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were… — Elizabeth Bowen
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. — Barbara Mertz
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know… — William Hazlitt
Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming… — Georgette Heyer
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too… — Ayn Rand
I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion… — Connie Brockway
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. — Jim Butcher
There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*… — James A. Baldwin
Adrian might be brash and impertinent, but he knew how to move. Maybe dance lessons had been part of growing up in an elite tier… — Richelle Mead
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching… — Wendell Willkie
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man — W R Inge
One must not make oneself cheap herethat is a cardinalpointor else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the… — Henry David Thoreau

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