Impertinence Quotes
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He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
Emily Bronte -
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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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt -
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
Katharine Tynan -
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
Jane Austen -
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson