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Letter "I" » insolence
«The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Ideas,
Money
| Keywords:
endeavoring, insolence, substitute
«There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear»
«He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.»
Author: Pierre Corneille
(Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
allows, deserves, increases, insolence, insulted, unpunished
«Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Men,
Pride
| Keywords:
feeble, impieties, impiety, insolence, submission
«He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
insolence, invective, petulance, sarcasm
«Wit is cultured insolence.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Wit
| Keywords:
cultured, insolence, Their culture, wit
«When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine»
«He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices»
«Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Prosperity
| Keywords:
breeder, insolence, surest
«The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.»
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