Zitat des Tages über Unverschämtheit / Insolence:
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Wit is educated insolence.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.