Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when t...he sated man instructs the hungry one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interf...erence. 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age,... Where pride and impudence in faction knit Usurp the chair of wit: Indicting and arraigning every day, Something they call a play. Let their fastidious, vain Commission of the brain, Run on and rage, sweat, censure, and condemn: They were not made for thee, less thou for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for fli...nging a pot of paint in the public's face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »