A Quote by William Shenstone

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

William Shenstone

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Assume Before Behaved Exalted Haughtiness Humility Insolent Many Persons

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William Shenstone
English - Poet
November 18, 1714 - February 11, 1763

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Jose Saramago

He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing towards the faults and errors of fallen man, so that God may be forbearing towards your own.

John of Kronstadt

The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.

Anders Chydenius

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Homer

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Brigitte Bardot

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

Hippocrates

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Robert Walpole

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

Aristotle

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

John Dryden

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

Edward Abbey

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.