Condescend Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.
— Dick Shawn
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
— Samuel Johnson
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If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy…
— Laurence Sterne
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend…
— Jonathan Swift
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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
— E L Doctorow
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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the…
— George Steiner
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
— William Butler Yeats
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Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't…
— Maureen Dowd
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to…
— Carl Sagan
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I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to…
— Elizabeth Smart
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Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation…
— Ilona Andrews
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… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of…
— Amos Oz
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People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which…
— Marcel Proust
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Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
Who Wrote These Condescend Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Condescend Quotes as follows: