He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

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.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

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

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

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

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

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

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, “No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence – forget it, forgive it – but keep him inexorably at a distance who ofв€Јfered it.

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation‘s leaders wouldn’t know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

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.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

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

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.

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

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God.