Quotes of Impudence - somelinesforyou

“ Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. ”

- John Galsworthy

“ 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

“ He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Wit is well-bred insolence. ”

- Aristotle

“ Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. ”

- Euripides

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

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“ 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

“ 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

“ We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear.... Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. ”

- Elizabeth Goudge

“ We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. ”

- Maurice Hulst

“ Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ The accused will enjoy a presumption of innocence. ”

- Donald Rumsfeld

“ We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. ”

- Emma Thompson

“ He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. ”

- Pierre Corneille

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

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ The words walked right out of my mouth. ”

- James Brady

“ There's more to life than cheek bones. ”

- Kate Winslet

“ There's more to life than just surviving... but... sometimes just surviving is all you get. ”

- Charles de Lint

“ There's a little bit of chutzpah in there, and a whole lot of ambition. ”

- Tom Daschle

“ There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. ”

- Sarah Miles

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

- Thomas Higginson

“ Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? ”

- Franz Schubert

“ 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 needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries. ”

- Jimmy Carter
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