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Quotes About Insolence

W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'" ... 'Nice bird, asshole,' said Locke.
~ Scott Lynch
History has been unkind to Ambedkar. First it contained him, and then it glorified him. It has made him India's Leader of the Untouchables, the King of the Ghetto. It has hidden away his writings. It has stripped away the radical intellect and the searing insolence.
~ Arundhati Roy
Adams elaborated. "Power is intoxicating," he wrote, "and those who are possessed of it too often grow vain and insolent.
~ Stacy Schiff
Go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
~ Stephen King
You can rank me to the dogs and back, but I'll never lose the hard-on I use to fuck your mother.
~ Stephen King
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
~ Rumi
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
~ Jose Saramago
Dr. Bogart was about to tell me more when William de la Touche Clancey sat down next to me with an insolent crash (do I resemble a country youth because I am small?)
~ Gore Vidal
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
~ Euripides
The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
No matter what affronts of youthful insolence he had to face in his day, he'd still have that: he was a man taken care of by a woman.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Cuando alguien nos pregunta qué somos en política o, anticipándose con la insolencia que pertenece al estilo de nuestro tiempo, nos adscribe a una, en vez de responder, debemos preguntar al impertinente qué piensa él que es el hombre y la naturaleza y la historia, qué es la sociedad y el individuo, la colectividad, el Estado, el uso, el derecho. La política se apresura a apagar las luces para que todos estos gatos resulten pardos
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
~ Jose Saramago
Yes, Darkstripe," Firepaw mewed, dipping his head submissively. He turned and muttered "Dirtstripe!" under his breath
~ Erin Hunter
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
Go fuck yourself," she said. Win rose. "Undeniably a better option than present company.
~ Harlan Coben
We need to have the courage to say obesity is not funny and vulgarity is not amusing. Insolent children and submissive parents are not the characters we want to admire and emulate. Flippancy and sarcasm are not the qualities which we need to include in our daily conversations.
~ Maya Angelou
For answer Mr Flay shot his head forward out of his collar and croaked, 'Silence! you kitchen thing. Hold your tongue you greasy fork.
~ Mervyn Peake
Thy worst. I fart at thee.
~ Ben Jonson
Of the insolence of the Scots, my father used to say, there is no end.
~ Bernard Cornwell
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
~ Andre Maurois
Marvel is a cornucopia of fantasy, a wild idea, a swashbuckling attitude, an escape from the humdrum and the prosaic. It's a serendipitous feast for the mind, the eye, the imagination, a literate celebration of unbridled creativity, coupled with a touch of rebellion and an insolent desire to spit in the eye of the dragon.
~ Stan Lee
And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?
~ Michael Buckley
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
~ Blaise Pascal