Condescension Quotes
Condescension Quote of the day
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.
All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.
There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.
Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn’t tolerance but condescension.
Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.
My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.
Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.
When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.