Impertinence Quotes

Impertinence Quote of the day

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

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