Impertinence Quotes

“I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me".”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“The more amorous the President became, the more his fatuousness made him intolerable: there is nothing in the world as comical as a lawyer in love—he is the perfect picture of gaucheness, impertinence and ineptitude.”
― Marquis de Sade, Betrayal

“One teaches out of love: it's an impertinence, an imposition, in the end it's terrifying.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke