Sophie Turner Quotes

It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you.

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

One of the things I hate about TV for kids is that it conescends to them.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

The Danes kept the English in a very degraded position, and often did them dishonor. If 100 English met one Dane, evil arose if they did not bow themselves to him; and if they came upon a bridge, they were required to wait; it was a crime if they moved before the Dane passed. In passing, every one inclined himself; whoever did not, if he was taken was shamelessly beaten. In such vileness were the English, so did the Danes vilify them.

If you feel you're being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.

The light-skinned girls always thought they were better looking. So did the teachers, too. That meant most of the dark complexion ones didn't like themselves.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

And Max, I've put some scraps in a bowl for your dog," Mom said. "It's on the floor, by the back door." The flock and I went still. Uh-oh, I thought. Total stomped up to me, his glare accusing. "A bowl on the floor!" he seethed. "Why don't you just chain me to a stake in the yard and throw me a bone!

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought.

I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.