Quotes About Patronizing

I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.

Is. English. Not. Your. Native. Language? Grim spoke each word separately, and strung each syllable out. Nick hated it when he did that. Oh, how silly of me, Grim continued. I forgot Stupid is your native tongue.

they knew what we're doing for them, they'd kiss our feet. But mentally they are closer to the crocodile and the hippopotamus than to you or me. That's why we decide what is good for them and have them sign those contracts.

He's quiet long enough that I'm about to prod, when he speaks in that way of his that I'm sure he thinks is gentle but is patronizing as hell. Is that what Trinity hears when I address her concerns? Shit. I'll need to be more careful. There's a fine line between "gentle" and "patronizing," and I might be straying as far over it as Oscar is.

At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.

Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage on incomes significantly lower than the likes of George Osborne and his friends in the City. They could teach the bankers and many commentators a thing or two about managing a budget responsibly.

Some people love only those they can condescend to, those they can tenderly despise.

You drive well for a woman." "That is so patronising. If I'd known you were going to say something like that I would have wrapped your precious Ferrari round a lamppost.

You know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if-you-become-just-like-me-you'll-be-free bullshit

When looking for an Oscar-winning performance Americans demand not mental instability but mental disability, ie Tom Hanks playing a simpleton or Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man. The Yanks are suckers for such patronising tosh.

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

Like all good lawyers, Mort pretends he's agreeing with her, while he's actually disagreeing. It's patronizing, but it works. "In general, Your Honor, that's true. On the other hand, when a video has been tampered with as this one has, or there is a substantial likelihood that it could be taken out of context, it could be unfairly damaging evidence.

one should not confuse clarity with condescension.

But the supposedly mind-broadening anecdotes owe their appeal to a patronizing willingness to treat other cultures' psychologies as weird and exotic compared to our own.

mansplaining.

Win looked at Myron. Myron raised his eyebrows. Brenda sighed. "Before you two continue your patronizing glances—the ones that say, 'Golly gee, the woman is actually capable of cogitation'—let me add that I'm just giving you a way around the impasse. I don't buy it for a second. It leaves too much unexplained.

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.

God save us from people who think they know what's best for us.

Many were hostile to Hitler but many more were seduced by the new "faith." It was "buoyant exciting and alive. It was not patronizing. It broke down social barriers, provided pageantry and stimulus." It was, in a nutshell, a new gospel.

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

A veces el Estado, con el pretexto de ayudar a los inválidos, termina por tratarlos como si fuesen inválidos.

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

i also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

I am an artist," Wit said. "I should thank you not to demean me by insisting my art must be trying to accomplish something. In fact, you shouldn't enjoy art. You should simply admit that it exists, then move on. Anything else is patronizing.