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Tag Name "Insolence" (48)

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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
Margaret Deland
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She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces sifted her, and separated her failings I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
William Congreve
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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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 tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
Franz Grillparzer
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Wit is well-bred insolence.
Aristotle
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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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I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
J. P. Donleavy
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There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
John Calvin
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The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.
Elizabeth Montagu
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Mark Twain
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding
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Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
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Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?
Henry David Thoreau
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti
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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 to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
Emile M. Cioran
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Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
Samuel Johnson
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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 the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
Marcus Aurelius
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
Samuel Johnson
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The insolence of office.
William Shakespeare
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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
Mary Astell
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
William Hazlitt
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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 when speaking of God.
Blaise Pascal
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Wit is cultured insolence.
Aristotle
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Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.
Thiruvalluvar
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