Quotes with insolence

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• And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• 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
  American journalist and author (1969 - )
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• Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• 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.

  Pensees (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• 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.

  Lord Shaftesbury
   
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• We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

  André Maurois
  French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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• Wit is educated insolence.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• condemnation
• countenances
• imagination
• appreciate
• belittles
• stupidity

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