Quotes About Impudence

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

To be curious about someone opened you to contamination from them. But she was still determined to play him a trick, to take a revenge for Kay, for women, and most of all for the impudence of his associating himself with her. She had no pity for Harald. Swinging the car into line behind the funeral procession, she waited for the question he would ask. "To be superior," he said, "of course, is not only a prerequisite for tragedy; it is tragedy. Hamlet's tragedy.

What exasperated her was that Charles seemed to have no notion of her torment. His conviction that he was making her happy struck her as impudent imbecility, his uxorious complacency as ingratitude.

Thou wanton: dost thou dare call me noodle?

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 eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

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

For, although Georgie's pomposities and impudence in the little school were often almost unbearable, the teachers were fascinated by him. They did not like him—he was too arrogant for that—but he kept them in such a state of emotion that they thought more about him than they did about all of the other ten pupils. The emotion he kept them in was usually one resulting from injured self-respect

You have a cool effrontery, my friend, that is altogether delightful.

Your ignorance, brother, returned she, as the great Milton says, almost subdues my patience.[*] D—n Milton! answered the squire: if he had the impudence to say so to my face, I'd lend him a douse, thof he was never so great a man.

The key to being a good thief, Sam always felt, was utter brazenness.

Laurence could make no real quarrel with the aims, which were natural and just; but England was at war, after all, and he was conscious, as Temeraire was not, of the impudence in demanding concessions from their own Government under such circumstances: very like mutiny. Yet

At times, your cynicism borders on impudence.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

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

I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.

Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

Le catene, la morte, la comune speranza, acquistavano un senso terribile e quotidiano. Ciò che prima era visto nell'aria, era stato parole, adesso afferrava alle viscere. Nelle parole c'è qualcosa d'impudico. In certi istanti avrei voluto vergognarmi. Invece tacevo. Avrei voluto scomparire come un topo. Le bestie, pensavo, non sanno quel che avviene. Invidiavo le bestie.

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 impudence.

Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity of the old woman. The mercer's daughter could carry herself at times with all the distinction of the Montemayors and when she was drunk she wore the grandeur of Hecuba.