“Don’t be ridiculous.” Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language…and” — Christine Pope Copy Share Image
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time. — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
And I refuse to be concerned with condescending advice, 'cause I'm the only motherfucka that can change my life. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
“Some people think their advice is a gift, and some people think they know every dam thing. You have to decide only… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you… — Magnus Scheving Copy Share Image
Opening things up not closing them off is my job. I'm doing that for my reader. You know, Bob Gottlieb always says,… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too! Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that? Kyo: Beating you is my vocation!… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“This is going to be one long-ass depressing life if I have to have Mr. Condescending Assface in my head for the… — Jolyn Palliata Copy Share Image
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Vixen character is not quite me. A part of that is putting up this huge front of being strong, impenetrable, really… — Jenny Ryan Copy Share Image
I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook. — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
People are saying, "I have a right to my opinion. Don't just keep condescending, telling me what to think." There's something slightly… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
“It’s not complicated and it doesn’t compare to my problem, now give me a damn cookie I think I earned it,” Jill… — R.L. Mathewson Copy Share Image
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
