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Impudence Quotes

Euripides quote: "Impudence is the worst of all human diseases."
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. Euripides
William Hazlitt quote: "the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success..."
the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence! William Hazlitt
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
What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? Carl Jung
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. Gilbert K. Chesterton
John Dryden quote: "Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men..."
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. John Dryden
Jane Austen quote: "Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible..."
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Jane Austen
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
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying."
Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. Thomas Jefferson
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not... Friedrich Nietzsche
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. T. S. Eliot
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace. But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast. William Penn
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. George Orwell
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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