Impertinent Quotes

They are being impertinent. - Tom DeLay

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. - Jacob Bronowski

Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest. - W. H. Auden

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. - William Ralph Inge

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

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions. - Erasmus Darwin

It's crazy in the East because are all one game away from being in the four spot or two games away from being in the fifth spot. It's impertinent that we win these games at home and show up on the road with a lot of energy. - Caron Butler

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair. - Aleister Crowley