"Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit…" — Algernon Charles Swinburne

More Condescend Quotes

This quote is filed under Condescend Quotes, one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The great will not condescend to take anything seriously. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel. — Unknown Author
• Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms;… — Samuel Johnson
• If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul,… — Laurence Sterne
• 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your… — Jonathan Swift
• I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him… — Aleksandar Hemon
• We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time. — E L Doctorow
• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely… — George Steiner
• Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is… — William Butler Yeats
• Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew… — Maureen Dowd

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