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impudence

«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.»
Author: Bernard Mandeville | Keywords: impudence
«It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.»
«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.»
«Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: devoted, impudence, mobs
«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.»
«Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Mankind | Keywords: impudence, knaves, thrive
«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.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: folks, impudence
«Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: impudence, overleap