Impudence Quotes
29 quotes by 26 authors
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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to…
— Josh Billings
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
— Albert Einstein
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a…
— John Ruskin
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It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
— Kenneth Rexroth
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I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their…
— Beryl Markham
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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
— Ben Jonson
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It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our…
— Aleister Crowley
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Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
— Ben Shahn
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Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons…
— Frederick Douglass
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Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
— Walter J. Phillips
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The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought…
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his…
— E. W. Howe
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Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
— Euripides
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
— John Ruskin
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