The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power,… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The king picked up his goblet, swirling the wine inside. 'I didn't receive word that your legion was here.' "They're not." Chaol… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If now, after the collapse, should any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler have the insolence to claim they were merely harmless… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
“Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
