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  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press
  • Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

    Morning   Wish   Enough  
  • It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 2, ch. 3 (1776)
  • I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

    Class   Proud   Meanness  
    William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”
  • Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

    Time   Truth   Taken  
  • May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

    Robertson Davies (1999). “"For Your Eye Alone": Letters 1976-1995”, McClelland & Stewart
  • He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

    Hate   Esteem   Species  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.372, Penguin
  • I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.

  • After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

    Humor   Lessons   Grammar  
    Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”
  • Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

    "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.
  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

    Sports   Dog   Pain  
  • Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.

    Men   Suffering   Battle  
    Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com
  • 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.

    Running   Animal   Men  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (1951). “Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena”
  • Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

    Doors   Silence   Tongue  
    James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.214
  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press
  • The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

    Sweet   Victory   Shadow  
    "Certain Personal Matters".
  • Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

    Silly   Opportunity   Men  
    Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC
  • I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

  • Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

    D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.209, Cambridge University Press
  • Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

    Mind   Sincere   Admire  
    Jane Austen (2009). “Pride and Prejudice Thrift Study Edition”, p.256, Courier Corporation
  • Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

  • The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God.

    Son   Rights   Jewels  
  • Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

    Leader   Gentleman   Luck  
  • The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.

    Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International
  • Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

    Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”
  • For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

    Moving   Race   India  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.74, Penguin Books India
  • The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  • That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

    Men   Pay   Guilty  
  • There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

  • It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

    Simple   Men   Reform  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.78, Courier Corporation
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