Best Insolence Quotes
45 Insolence quotes by 39 unique authors
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Wit is cultured insolence.
— Aristotle
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Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
— Andre Maurois
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Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
— Bryant H. McGill
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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,…
— Jane Austen
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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of…
— Lord Byron
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Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is…
— Joseph Conrad
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When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed,…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
— Wilhelm Reich
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
— John Milton
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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…
— Blaise Pascal
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman…
— Rumi
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried…
— Emil Cioran
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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
— Lord Byron
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Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety
— Bertrand Russell
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The insolence of wealth will creep out
— Samuel Johnson
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate to his…
— Franz Grillparzer
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