Condescension Quotes
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We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us ... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?
— J.G. Farrell
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.
— Philip Yancey
...a gallon of condescension, upon everybody...
— Charles Dickens
You can coat that shit in sugar, but it's still shit.
— Kyran Pittman
Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.
— Anthony Edwards
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
— Sherman Alexie
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
— Joseph Campbell
If I needed your condescension, I'd ask for it.
— Mark Slouka
All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.
— Peter Akinola
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
— Stella Young
This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.
— Christopher Pike
There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
— John Steinbeck
I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.
— Michael Arad
Incredible cosmic powers do not equate with high IQ.
— Brandon Sanderson
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
— Stephen King
Hell is - other people!
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Take your condescension, your unwanted advice, your creepy lurking outside of my door and shove it up your ass.
— Erin Watt
Service, which is nothing other than a modern echo of noblesse oblige, and generally undertaken in the same spirit of benign condescension.
— William Deresiewicz
His posture spoke of condescension, his expression disinterest. He was all brambles and icicles as he strode closer to her cage.
— Marissa Meyer
It is unutterably boring, the multitudes in progression from innocence to inkling to knowledge to the inevitable apotheosis of desperation.
— Catherynne M Valente
No judgment, no condescension. Just hope.
— James Frey
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
— Bernard Crick
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
— Jean Gebser
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
— Plato
People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.
— Craig Ferguson
Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.
— Steve Erickson
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Every kid has a bug period ... I never grew out of mine.
— E. O. Wilson
There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.
— Peter Shaffer
...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.
— Rebecca Solnit
DEVIL Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. WM-ST-62
— Kahlil Gibran
When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
— Stewart Stafford