Quotes of Impertinence - somelinesforyou

“ Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,Which gives men stomach to digest his words,With better appetite. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting: it is most sharp sauce. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Sweet meat must have sour sauce. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. ”

- Plutarch

“ In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ Matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. ”

- Francesco Caracciolo

“ A crier of green sauce. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. ”

- Voltaire

“ A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Rest: the sweet sauce of labor. ”

- Plutarch

“ Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. ”

- Thomas Tusser

“ Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ”

- Cervantes

“ Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! ”

- Cal Le Mon

“ True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“ 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

“ 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

“ There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice… ”

- Joseph Addison

“ The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer
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