Condescension Quote by Marissa Meyer

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

— Francis of Assisi

“The term condescension is used in two significantly different ways in contemporary discourse. It evokes negative emotions when it is used in the sense…

— Glenn R. Kreider

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American…

— Mark Steyn

“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At…

— Isaac Asimov

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do…

— Josephine Lawrence

“Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension;…

— Zadie Smith

But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an…

— Edward Gibbon

the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is…

— Isak Dinesen

When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension…

— Rumaan Alam

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

— Verity Stob

“There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.”

— Amitava Kumar