The worst indictment I ever heard from my father was when he'd say of another man, "He's so lazy he stinks.
—Joseph Bathanti
Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance.
—Samuel Johnson