“Wit is educated insolence.”
Aristotle
“You're just as witty as you feel, just as witty as you feel inside.”
Rain Bojangles
“Wit is cultured insolence.”
“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.”
Pierre Corneille
“Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.”
Mark Twain
“A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma.”
G. K. Chesterton
“It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.”
Junius