Imprudence Quotes

#1. It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

Pierre Corneille

#2. O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Walter Savage Landor

#3. But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice.

Jane Austen

#4. A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.

Otto Weininger

#5. Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Walter Savage Landor

#6. When you are a prisoner in your own mind, imprudence soon becomes your cellmate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper, since its chief characteristics were imprudence, youth and extreme good looks.

Cecil Woodham-Smith

#8. Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

Mason Cooley

#9. If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.

Jane Austen

#10. The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

#11. These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#12. Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

Mason Cooley

#13. If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

Leanda De Lisle

#14. Making money is intelligence;
saving money is wisdom.
Squandering money is imprudence;
Sharing money is virtue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#16. Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

Jane Austen

#17. If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Thomas Hardy

#18. Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

Herman Melville

#19. Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

Margaret Atwood

#20. We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

Samuel Johnson

#21. You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

Plum Sykes

#22. Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Edgar Mitchell

#23. You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

Maggie Siff

#24. The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#25. Your eyes surprise me every time I look into them and they're looking back at me. Your mouth surprises me, because you always seem to smile more with one half that with the other, like part of you knows a funny secret that none of the rest of us, not even your other half, can guess.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#26. We are such stuff 173 As dreams are made on

William Shakespeare

#27. On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

Josef Albers