Insolence Quotes

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

Wit is well-bred insolence.

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.

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

The insolence of office.

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.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

Wit is cultured insolence.

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.

Talent is culture with insolence.

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

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

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