Impudence Quotes

• Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Live
  • Guardian angel

• To write a novel is fundamentally an act of impudence. To comb one's hair is also an act of impudence, especially when it's done to try to cover a scar running across the top of one's forehead. But combing one's hair is an act of minor impudence, whereas writing is a more serious affair. We mask reality, we hide our fears, we reinvent things that have been said, and above all, the people who said them. Writing a novel implies a certain perversity. It's not something one can do with a tortoiseshell comb. It is perhaps for that reason that they take away my pen at night. Not, as they pretend, to prevent me from accidentally stabbing myself in the throat with it- but to prevent me from killing anyone else.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Novel
  • Mask
  • Impudence

• I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Species
  • Hunt
  • Mastodon

• Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

  

  Plato
  • Troubling
  • Impudence
  • Accompained

• Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

  

  Euripides
  • Impudence
  • Human Disease

• 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 and spits at you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Opinion
  • Humble
  • Impudence

• It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a lot of rage and that really pointed us in the direction of exploiting that aspect of his character, which people always seem to enjoy.

  

  David Kirschner
  • People
  • Direction
  • Suggested

• I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Paint
  • Impudence
  • Public's Face