Top 54 Impudence Quotes
#1. We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!
Mark Leyner
#2. Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.
John Dryden
#3. Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
Oliver Goldsmith
#5. I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Josh Billings
#6. I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.
Jay Gould
#7. Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
E.W. Howe
#9. It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
Kenneth Rexroth
#10. I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.
Umberto Eco
#11. Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
Ben Shahn
#12. The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
Walter J. Phillips
#13. Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
George Crabbe
#14. Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?
Joseph Conrad
#15. It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
Joseph Campbell
#16. When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.
John Locke
#17. The old maxim ... there are three things necessary to success in life
Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
William Hazlitt
#18. Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
Sir Fulke Greville
#19. Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
Euripides
#20. You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#21. There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Alexander Hamilton
#22. There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#23. Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven't your equal
Charlotte Bronte
#25. Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
Plato
#26. 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
#27. Laurence could make no real quarrel with the aims, which were natural and just; but England was at war, after all, and he was conscious, as Temeraire was not, of the impudence in demanding concessions from their own Government under such circumstances: very like mutiny. Yet
Naomi Novik
#28. Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Bernard De Mandeville
#29. It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct proportion to his impudence.
Paul Sochaczewski
#30. 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 Dostoyevsky
#31. Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin
#32. Audacity is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid daring.
Mike Cernovich
#33. Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet:
She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.
Janet Aylmer
#34. when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .
Peter Kreeft
#36. Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
Anton Chekhov
#37. Just like a damned man, he thought exasperatedly. She got what she wanted, then curled up and went to sleep.
That was what he was supposed to do, blast and confound her bloody impudence.
Loretta Chase
#38. True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
Josh Billings
#39. I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]
Joseph Conrad
#40. Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
Albert Einstein
#41. I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#42. I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#43. What was said by the Latin poet of labor
that it conquers all things
is much more true when applied to impudence.
Henry Fielding
#44. Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
William Hazlitt
#45. The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#46. The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard
#47. Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.
James Elroy Flecker
#48. Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
Ben Jonson
#49. Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
Daniel Defoe
#50. But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters!
Hope Mirrlees
#51. The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous ... they ought to be abolished.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
Cassandra Clare
