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  • 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.

    Men   Vitality   Degrees  
    Letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 20, 1891.
  • 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.

    Nature   Passion   May  
    Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag
  • That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

    Hypocrite   Vanity   Law  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.120, Courier Corporation
  • Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

    Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world”, p.467
  • 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 (1855). “The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe”, p.443
  • What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

    Wise   Night   Evil  
    Alexander Pope (1839). “The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.221
  • What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

    Latin   Conquer   Poet  
    Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley (1903). “The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of the life of the late Mr.Jonathan Wild and A journey from this world to the next, &c”
  • 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.

    Character   Men   People  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • 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.

    Men   World   Merit  
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Isobel Grundy (1997). “Selected letters”, Penguin Group USA
  • Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.

    "World War II almanac" by Robert Goralski (p. 9), 1981.
  • 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.

  • True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

  • It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

    War   Hair   Sun  
  • There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

    Heart   Humility   Pride  
  • 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 such 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 problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

    Atheist   Voice   Judging  
    "The Will to Power".
  • 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.

    Heart   Simple   Doe  
    Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.28, New Directions Publishing
  • 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.

    Believe   Men   Habit  
  • Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

    William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.66
  • Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

  • 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.

    Sweet   Women   Kissing  
  • Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

    Angel   Long   World  
  • 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.

    Fashion   Crafts   Sacred  
    John Locke (1728). “Two Treatises of Government: In the Former the False Principles & Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer & His Followers, are Detected & Overthrown; the Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent & End of Civil Government”, p.49
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Art   Enlightenment   May  
    Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.9, Harvard University Press
  • For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

    Desire   Cabins   World  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.6008, Delphi Classics
  • Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

    William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487
  • It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

    Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.60, New World Library
  • Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

  • How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?

    Real   Exercise   Men  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1889). “The Limitations of Toleration: A Discussion Between Robert G. Ingersoll, Frederic R. Coudert, Stewart L. Woodford, Before the Nineteenth Century Club, of New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, 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.

    Sadness   Feelings   Mind  
    Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing
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