Top 96 Quotes About Insolence
#1. 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
#2. The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.
Harriet Martineau
#4. The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.
Benjamin Disraeli
#5. 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.
Emil Cioran
#7. A great deal of the calmness of her insolence had left her. She had expected to have the whole night in which luxuriously to torment the lump opposite her. To torment him and to allure him.
Ford Madox Ford
#8. ... certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office..
Robert A. Heinlein
#9. There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
John Calvin
#10. 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.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.
Richard M. Weaver
#12. Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#13. I abstain from the people who consider insolence bravery and tenderness cowardice. And I abstain from those who consider chatter wisdom and silence ignorance.
Kahlil Gibran
#14. Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical
is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#16. I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
J.P. Donleavy
#17. When you are made to pay for such insolence, I shall revel in your ruin.
A&E Kirk
#18. They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.
Aristotle.
#19. The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.
Laurence Sterne
#20. With all the insolence she swallowed, it was a wonder her corsets still laced. Retort after rejoinder after sharp-edged remark: Why do you address me? What can I possibly have to say to a man who would split a pair of fives? Be quiet. Go to sleep. Go away. Come back when you have another erection.
Cecilia Grant
#21. 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
#22. Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. 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 are found the most serene and free.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#24. To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.
Herman Melville
#25. Miracle centered gospel brings about the culture of indolence and insolence upon the country.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. And, when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
John Milton
#27. Conquer with forbearance
The excesses of insolence.
Thiruvalluvar
#28. Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
Samuel Johnson
#29. The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
Margaret Deland
#30. 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
#31. Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Mark Twain
#32. The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
Edward Abbey
#33. 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, without enjoying its advantages.
Jane Austen
#34. There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.
Terry Eagleton
#35. In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.
O. Henry
#36. Of the insolence of the Scots, my father used to say, there is no end.
Bernard Cornwell
#37. Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
Walter Savage Landor
#38. I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a salary
Charlotte Bronte
#39. Insolence was spreading like butter across his red and pitted face.
Esme Ellis
#40. To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please
respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#41. We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
Samuel Johnson
#44. The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
William Hazlitt
#45. Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.
Carson McCullers
#46. Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana?" Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look.
"We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit," Augustus said. Insolence was apt to bring out the comic in him.
Larry McMurtry
#47. When dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor 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 in them," shall we have it.
Marianne Moore
#48. The captain glares down at me, his lip curled in irritation at my insolence, and something dark, something cold and dangerous, moves behind his eyes. In that moment, I do not doubt him. In that moment, I believe wholeheartedly he is who he claims to be.
Lisa Maxwell
#49. The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.
J.R. Ward
#50. The unforgettable thing in his life is usually not a thing he has done or left undone, but a thing done to him - some insolence or cruelty for which he could not, or did not, avenge himself.
Max Beerbohm
#52. Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet.
Robert A. Heinlein
#53. As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all gain; [...] but neither must we with neo-pagan obscurity of thought imagine it all loss.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. But it was not her beauty that was arresting. It was her style, a sort of insolence toward life, her total lack of caution, her fearless and abundant pride.
Nancy Milford
#55. I was born once.
The doctor was late.
I made my own way out.
The nurse slapped my insolence.
"Suffocate me!" I screamed, "I shall not recant.
Robert Skyler
#56. The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
Blaise Pascal
#57. There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
Juvenal
#60. Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.
Marlena De Blasi
#61. And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for Allah loveth not any arrogant boaster.
Anonymous
#62. 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
#63. The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#64. The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.
Doug Stanhope
#65. Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own? ... You carry your fortune in your own hand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. so conspicuous was his abhorrence of "rebellious insolence" that he might have been enunciating the name of a menace resolved to undermine not just Winesburg, Ohio, but the great republic itself.
Philip Roth
#67. Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Rumi
#68. Very well. On my love for Mencheres, I swear that I will honor both you and Leila as my true partners, and I will keep my insolence, trickiness , filthiness, and general knavery to as much a minimum as I can manage.
Jeaniene Frost
#69. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
John Calvin
#70. A man ought to be able to be carried away by his feelings, he ought to be able to be mad, to make mistakes, to suffer! A woman will forgive you audacity and insolence, but she will never forgive your reasonableness!
Anton Chekhov
#72. The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.
Emil M. Cioran
#73. 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
#74. Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?
Malcolm Forbes
#75. Speak what is in your mind,' Pandit Baba commanded. What insolence, Ahmed thought. There are two categories of things in my mind, he should say, the stuff people like you have fed into it and my own reactions to that stuff. The result is cancellation, so I have nothing in my mind.
Paul Scott
#76. 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
#77. 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.
Sarah Fielding
#78. 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.
William Hazlitt
#79. Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way to behave; then he suddenly discovers that, even for a prince, there are such things as music, literature, not to speak of standing for the post of deputy.
Marcel Proust
#80. What you want, chichi man?" The boy showed no fear. His insolence was practiced and drew hollers of pleasure from the audience.
Mark Dawson
#81. one who possessed Beauty without Vanity,"' he said aloud to Barnabas. '"Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / And all the virtues of Man without his Vices.
Jan Karon
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti
#85. I find a dash of insolence to be quite enjoyable from time to time.
Jessica Cluess
#87. The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
Benjamin Franklin
#88. We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Andre Maurois
#89. Namaste, Prince of Naga-loka. I'm grateful. You're a fine fellow." He stuck out his tongue and grinned wickedly. "For a royal wriggler."
"Namaste, O flea-ridden tree-climber," Shesha replied, with a fond glint in his eyes. "May your life be as long as you insolence is great.
Lloyd Alexander
#90. She stood there before them, in all the unconscious insolence of beauty, and
Emmuska Orczy
#91. The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
Mary Astell
#92. Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
Wilhelm Reich
#93. Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
Samuel Johnson
#94. My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man.
"When the planting's done," I said.
"Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting."
"Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.
Orson Scott Card
#95. But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."
Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could."
Every person in the hall held their breath.
Sarah J. Maas
#96. Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.
George Bernard Shaw
