Quotes of: Impertinence Keyword

Too much politeness is impertinent.

Japanese

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

The Hippopotamus Pool

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

Theodor Adorno

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Brigitte Bardot

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

John le Carre

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Thomas W. Higginson

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Mark Twain

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

William Ralph Inge

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

Small Favor

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

Pride and Prejudice

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Wuthering Heights

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.

Robertson Davies

Lieutenant John Chard: Mr. Witt! When I have the impertinence to climb into your pulpit to deliver a sermon, then you can tell me my duty.

Zulu

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

Nature

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

Poems by Emily Dickinson Third Series

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

Robert Chambers

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

Wendell Willkie

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social so...

Will Self

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever kno...

Jon Katz