Quotes on Impertinence

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

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.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.