Impudence Quotes

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― John Dryden, The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!”
― william hazlitt

“Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.”
― James Elroy Flecker, The Story Of Hassan Of Baghdad And How He Came To Make The Golden Journey To Samarkand

“Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She didn’t dare to look at her mother….”
― Betty MacDonald, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

“People toy with what they understand, and have a great fear for what they do not.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia