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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
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. -- Theodor Adorno
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. -- Thomas W. Higginson
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. -- Mark Twain
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
If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor. -- Robert Chambers
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence -- Thomas W. Higginson
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. -- Anatole France
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. -- Sivananda
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did. -- Jane Austen
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. -- Emily Bronte
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. -- William Hazlitt
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful. -- Katharine Tynan
It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity. -- George D. Prentice
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadows of apparently irrevocable disaster. -- H. G. Wells
I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it. -- Matt Groening
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. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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