The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
