Insolence Quotes

45 quotes by 39 authors

Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. — Mark Twain
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson
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… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon… — Ron Franscell
If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy… — Confucius
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. — Rumi
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. — Henry Fielding
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… — Samuel Johnson
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy. — Margaret Deland
I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down. — J P Donleavy
Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of… — Ammianus Marcellinus
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt
Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. — Alice Thomas Ellis
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. — Benjamin Franklin
Talent is culture with insolence. — Aristotle
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… — Marianne Moore

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