The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.
Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?
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.
Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
Wit is educated insolence.
Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of great pride and insolence. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance, who is usually very strong, and with blue eyes
There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.
Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
The insolence of wealth will creep out.
Talent is culture with insolence.
Wit is cultured insolence.
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.
