Quotes About Condescension

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger.

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to Heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.

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.

parlour on the left being reserved for the more select society in which Squire Cass frequently enjoyed the double pleasure of conviviality and condescension.

It cannot be from any worthiness in our prayers, which are in themselves polluted things. But it is because God delights in mercy and condescension. He is herein infinitely distinguished from all other Gods. He is the great fountain of all good, from whom goodness flows as light from the sun.2 —JonaThan edwards

One reason why the developed world has a difficult job grappling with the Islamist threat is that it doesn't take religion seriously. It condescends to it. In Europe's wholly secularized environment, the enduring religiosity of America is not just odd, but primitive.

We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.

He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.

You idiot,' Layla said. 'You sneering, despicable - ' 'You're beginning to repeat yourself.

The Italian school has lost sight of the high mission of art. Instead of elevating the crowd, it has condescended to the crowd; it has won its success only by accepting the suffrages of all comers, and appealing to the vulgar minds which constitute the majority. Such a success is mere street juggling.

He had expected to have been received, if not with gratification, at least with pleasure: it had been a piece of condescension on the part of the head of the family to have visited its reprobate, but the reprobate was apparently unaware of this.

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

Gorski really helps us all when he zooms in on what these kinds of readings do to people. "First, it leads to hubris. It seduces its followers into claiming to know things that no human being can possibly know." Such persons consider themselves elect and special and insiders, and such confidence tends toward condescension.

Nothing's secure. Gold's only lead When you stop to think. On your way up, show consideration To the ones you meet on their way down. The Latin root of 'condescension' Means we all sink.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

The sigh Camilla Traynor gave was the sound of someone forced to explain something politely to an imbecile. I wondered if she knew that everything she said made the other person feel like an idiot. I wondered if it was something she'd actually cultivated deliberately. I didn't think I could ever manage to make someone feel inferior.

No, but he's sarcastic and mean with it. Every time I say something or suggest something he looks at me like I'm stupid, or says something that makes me feel about two years old.

but that's one of the questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person.

Yes," I said, because you can't show weakness to posh people or they'll mercilessly take advantage. I think it's something they learn at school in between conversational French and practical condescension.

The worst part of age was the feeling of helplessness, of being disengaged from life. The middle-aged treated the old with the same serenely contemptuous condescension they used for children.

I`d developed a style in dealing with foreigners that won their trust quickly. That style was two parts showman, two parts flatterer, and one part philanderer, combined with a hint of mischief, a sniff of condescension, and a pinch of contempt.