(10 quotes found)
“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.”
Pierre Corneille
“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
“Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.”
Mark Twain
“Wit is cultured insolence.”
Aristotle
“The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wit is educated insolence.”
“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 no-body pities their Case.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.”
Junius
“Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int”
Samuel Johnson
“The temptation was an absolute truth and the serpent was the tempter. For his insolence the snake was punished and condemned to crawl on its belly forever.”
William Jennings Bryan
