We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Andre Maurois
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
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
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.
Charles Spurgeon
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti
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.
Emil Cioran
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
Mary Astell
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Rumi
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.
Sarah Fielding
