Impudence Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

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
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
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
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
Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world. — Albert Einstein
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
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
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
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
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none. — Ben Jonson
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
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
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
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. — Oliver Goldsmith
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. — Walter J. Phillips
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
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
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. — Euripides
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
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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