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Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. -- Euripides
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. -- Saint Bernard
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. -- John Ruskin
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. -- Josh Billings
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. -- Alexander Hamilton
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. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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 Montagu
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. -- Bernard de Mandeville
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. -- Sir Fulke Greville
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none. -- Ben Jonson
Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world. -- Albert Einstein
Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant. -- James Elroy Flecker
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. -- Walter J. Phillips
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness. -- Plato
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. -- John Dryden
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. -- Josh Billings
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. -- William Hazlitt
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence. -- Henry Fielding
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). -- Joseph Campbell
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
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. -- Kenneth Rexroth
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
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. -- Ben Shahn
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. -- E. W. Howe
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. -- John Locke
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
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. -- Jay Gould
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. -- Anton Chekhov
You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
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. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. -- John Ruskin

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