Quotes About Insolence

The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.

crotch-eared mean-ass

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Fuck you and the bird you flew in on. -Julija, page 23

Edle Herren, seid so freundlich und verpisst Euch.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

You conceited pest.

The man's posture said that he did not enjoy taking orders, and the insolence in his eyes was not slave insolence, an impotent pose, but a hard fact.

Eres, precisamente, el hombre que necesitamos —le dijo Defarge al oído;— has hecho creer a esa gente que esta situación va a durar siempre. Así se harán más insolentes y llegarán más pronto a su fin.

People who have no children can be hard: Attain a mail of ice and insolence:

Suck it yourself, sugarstick!

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

As the impudence of flattery, so the impudence of egotism.

His coming into the country at all is a most insolent thing, indeed, and I wonder how he could presume to do it. I pity you, Miss Eliza, for this discovery of your favourite's guilt; but really, considering his descent, one could not expect much better.

Fuck You's my name," I said. "But you can call me Mister Fuck You.

As Ceres drank what she gave her, an insolent, coarse-looking boy strolled up in front of the goddess, burst into laughter and jeered, 'What a greedy female you are!' Deeply insulted, she rapidly threw what was left of her drink in the prattling idiot's face and drenched him in barley mixture.

Sorry . . . I can't help stupid.