Condescending Quotes
50 quotes by 48 authors
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
— Scott Adams
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Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.
— Steve Carell
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I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a…
— Nick Cave
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
— Brooks Atkinson
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Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a…
— Andrea Brown
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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 you already know…
— Emmet Gowin
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Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of…
— Howard Barker
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Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain…
— Stephen Bayley
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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
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But really it’s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they’re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese. Banged up people…
— Paul Neilan
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I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become…
— Muhammad Asad
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I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.
— Jimmy Carr
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Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election. This attitude that…
— Cal Thomas
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You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.'…
— Jim Gaffigan
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Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that…
— Helen Mirren
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I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.
— Sherry Stringfield
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Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
— Dennis Cooper
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Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending…
— Azar Nafisi
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I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't look like the…
— Tinie Tempah
Who Wrote These Condescending Quotes
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