Condescending Attitude Quotes

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.

I believe in the honest feeling of the working people and in their unshakable loyalty to me. Therefore I forgive them.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

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.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

Usually, 'All Lives Matter' comes as a response to 'Black Lives Matter'; it doesn't exist in a vacuum. So when people say 'Black Lives Matter,' a lot of times the response 'All Lives Matter' can seem very condescending, dismissive to 'Black Lives Matter.'

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He's got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he's got all the answers.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

The only thing that is pathetic... is you.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

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

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.