Quotes with impertinent

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• A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

  Charles Lamb
  English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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• I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

  John le Carré
  British author (1931 - 2020)
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• Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

  Dean William R. Inge
  Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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• That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski
  British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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• There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

  Sinclair Lewis
  American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• correspondence
• approximation
• preposterous
• deliberately
• prosperity
• unpleasant

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