“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man”
W. R. Inge
“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.”
Robertson Davies
“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.”
Helen Keller
“All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome”
Ben Jonson
“At least one hour will be music. The rest will be impertinent remarks,”
Walter Wells
“Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to”
Plutarch
