Supercilious Quotes

You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl…

— Cassandra Clare

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious…

— Anonymous

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might…

— James A. Michener

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is…

— John Lydon

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she…

— Karen Marie Moning

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

— William Feather

I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light,…

— Anonymous

Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said…

— Susanna Clarke