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The insolence of office.
Wit is cultured insolence.
Wit is educated insolence.
Wit is well-bred insolence.
Talent is culture with insolence.
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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.
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
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.
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.
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.
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.