Insolent Quotes
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels.
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!
I always found it weird when the Phantom would call Raoul insolent boy and the Raoul was obviously older than him.
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.
Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.
