Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“I often wonder, in a catfight, when one doesn't want to fight, if the other cat calls it a pussy.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those… — Anders Chydenius Copy Share Image
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a… — George Downame Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So,… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I always found it weird when the Phantom would call Raoul insolent boy and the Raoul was obviously older than him. — Hugh Panaro Copy Share Image
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. — Junius Copy Share Image
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
