IMPERTINENCE

Related Subjects: Familiarity, Impudence, Mockery

1. He is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.—CICERO
   

2. There is both an impertinence and a lack of taste in any man's laying bare to the public eye—to any eye —the bliss that has come to him through the love of a devoted woman, with whose life his own has been bound up.—GEORGE DU MAURIER, Peter Ibbetson
   

3. Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, and forgive it, but keep inexorably at a distance him who offered it.—LAVATER