Impudent Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,…
— William Penn
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw…
— Elbert Hubbard
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to…
— Benjamin Hoadly
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If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake…
— Marie Dentiere
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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which…
— Robert Greene
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The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
— Vivian Stanshall
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine,…
— Robert Greene
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The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the…
— Phineas Quimby
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The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.
— Adolf Hitler
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by…
— George Bernard Shaw
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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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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
— Jane Austen
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The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their…
— C.S. Lewis
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The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough…
— Monique Truong
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What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand…
— Carl Jung
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We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of…
— Beryl Markham
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