(6 quotes found)
“Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.”
Joseph Addison
“Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.”
William Penn
“The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
John Ruskin
“Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.”
Euripides
