Insolence Quotes

Insolence Quote of the day

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

Wit is cultured insolence.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Talent is culture with insolence.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

Miracle centered gospel brings about the culture of indolence and insolence upon the country.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.