(22 quotes found)
“Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense”
Mark Twain
“True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god”
“Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity”
Ambrose Bierce
“It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it”
Jacob Chanowski
“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the road safer, the beer stronger, the old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer”
Brendan Behan
“First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.”
Lincoln Steffens
“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
Robertson Davies
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
Jacob Bronowski
“Wherever it came from, the musical came with its hair mussed and with an innocent, indolent, irreverent look on its bright, bland face.”
Walter Kerr
“We're not going too come out too quickly or too much, ... We do want to bring it back to irreverent humor -- that's what made them unique.”
Gary Foster
