Patronizing Attitude Quotes

Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

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

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

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 government is better at making decisions than you are because you are too stupid to know what is good for you is a hallmark of patronizing, arrogant and condescending liberalism.

The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.

"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."

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

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl.

One can see the professionals and intellectuals talking to their rural brethren with an amused and condescending smile. They forget that but for the toiling rural masses, all their professional training and erudition would collapse like a castle of cards.

The trouble with Northern liberals is that they want their arses kissed all the time … but I can’t spend all my time doing it.

I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.