Impudence Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

— William Hazlitt

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The…

— Alexander Pope

“Long live impudence! It is my guardian angel in this world.” That”

— Walter Isaacson

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature,…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

— John Ruskin

“The maxim, by which we commonly conduct ourselves in our reasonings, is, that the objects, of which we have no experience, resemble those, of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own…

— Ben Shahn

“Do it, my fellow Americans! Do it for every adolescent anomic skank genius cloistered in his room, getting cranked, rabidly humping his sampler as…

— Mark Leyner

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs…

— Anton Chekhov

Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

— Albert Einstein

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

— Ben Jonson