Quotes of Insolence - somelinesforyou

“ Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,Which gives men stomach to digest his words,With better appetite. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! ”

- Cal Le Mon

“ The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! ”

- Robert Browning

“ Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips. ”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“ Smile; It's the second best thing one can do with one's lips. ”

- Unknown

“ Fie, fie upon her!There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips. ”

- Unknown

“ Wit is educated insolence. ”

- Aristotle

“ I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. ”

- Ben Folds

“ True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free. ”

- Lord Shaftesbury

“ The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. ”

- John Milton

“ What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss… ”

- James Joyce

“ Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. ”

- Samuel Ullman

“ Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“ We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear - unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' - in a word, free men. ”

- Gerald W. Johnston

“ Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog. ”

- John Cam Hobhouse
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