Insolence Quotations

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 to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

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.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

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

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

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

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

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

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

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

The temptation was an absolute truth and the serpent was the tempter. For his insolence the snake was punished and condemned to crawl on its belly forever.

Your insolence and ignorance of the rights conceded to workers universally in the modern world were incredible, and as great as your inhumanity.

Can you imagine the insolence of these protesters? ... They have the audacity to disparage and demean these courageous soldiers who are enduring great physical and emotional trauma because they believed in the effort to bring freedom to Iraq.

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.]

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

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

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.

The insolence of office.

Talent is culture with insolence.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

Wit is cultured insolence.

He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective

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

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.