the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
I'll not have an exchange with an impudent fool." [Oswald] He's not impudent," said Jones [the puppet]. "With proper inspiration, the lad sports a woody as stout as a mooring pin. Ask your lady." I nodded in agreement with the puppet, for he is most ...
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
Professor Henry Higgins: You impudent hussy!
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Rajah Puran Singh: Crush Captain Russell's impudence.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
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 am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? You. But you should not have created me free.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of.
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
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, hav...
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo a...
