Quotes About Impudence

It is impudence to say that Woman was made out of Man's body, she continued, when every man is born of woman. What impudence men have, what arrogance!

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

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

As the impudence of flattery, so the impudence of egotism.

Chutzpa is that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

John Thorpe [...] was a stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy.

Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet: She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.

The almost as familiar chutzpah has been drolly defined as 'the quality shown by the man who murders his mother and father, then asks the judge to forgive a poor orphan

Thirty pesos," he said—a quick thinker. It was $1.50. I handed it over and the other men laughed at this man's enterprise, or his impudence, or perhaps at my gringo acquiescence.

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

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 may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery.

We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!

The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.

Sou o colunista que se repete com um límpido impudor. Não tenho o menor escrúpulo em usar duzentas, trezentas vezes a mesma metáfora.

Thus the scriptures tell you that you must persist in rising to (assuming) the consciousness of your wish already being fulfilled. The promise is definite that if you are shameless in your impudence in assuming that you already have that which your senses deny, it shall be given unto you — your desire shall be attained.

The passivity of things deceives us: we manipulate nothing with impudence without hurting a god.

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.