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Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking. -- George Mikes
I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is. -- Brigitte Bardot
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. -- John le Carre
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. -- Jacob Bronowski
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. -- William Ralph Inge
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals. -- Wendell Willkie
Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known. -- Jon Katz
I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom. -- Tim Howard
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. -- Will Self
Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent. -- Mary Collyer
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. -- Jim Butcher
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome -- Ben Jonson
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. -- Jacob Bronowski
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone. -- Charles Lamb
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. -- Ambrose Bierce
... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks. -- Fanny Burney
Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end. -- John Gresham Machen
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. -- Richard Steele
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. -- Barbara Mertz
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. -- Edward Abbey
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. -- Lord Chesterfield
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me". -- Lemony Snicket
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. -- Thomas Sprat
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. -- Sinclair Lewis
-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore. -- J. K. Rowling
'-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore. -- J. K. Rowling
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing. -- Catherine Marshall
As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top. -- Henry David Thoreau
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business. -- Plutarch
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory. -- James Russell Lowell

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