Quotes About Condescension

She had always secretly reproached him for not loving her enough. Her own love she considered above reproach, while his seemed mere condescension.

O sabichão do grupo, não acredita em nada, zomba de todo mundo. Quando não tem argumentos, implica com os outros e toma o silêncio de seus interlocutores como concordância.

Since becoming chief, he'd also been well served by an uncommon immunity to condescension.

Well, that settles it," Jason said with mock severity. "Such condescension tells me what I had long suspected." "Which is . . ." "That George Bambridge was not raised with the benefit of a sister.

Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the Human Race in Scorn.

Son las alimañas mezquinas quienes siempre se sienten virtuosas y miran al resto del mundo por encima del hombro.

You are a sad, sad little man and you have my pity. — Buzz Lightyear

He was several inches taller than her, so that allowed for a fair amount of condescension.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Stephen spared her a look that was part patience and part condescension. "I'm a Chinese American, so of course I spend all my free time in a secret monastery learning kung fu and practicing spiritual cultivation. Because one day a demon king shall descend onto Houston and only my Ninth Level Thunder Fist Punch will stand in his way.

No one likes to be condescended to, so it's hardly surprising that so many high school students develop a loathing for the modernist novels they're forced to read in senior English and go to the movies instead. (Movies have plots, after all.) They're being good postmodernists.

No soporto a la gente que se cree moralmente superior. Nadie la soporta.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

A pior coisa é suportar um rico prepotente.

Every generation has tended to look on the past with an air of condescension. I call it history snobbery, and your generation is smitten with one of the worst cases ever.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

There's a lot of hypocrisy and condescension in Israel's institutionalized support for Mubarak's tyrannical rule, in its backing of a corrupt leader who established a brutal secret police state to suppress his citizens and keep their mouths shut.

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.

Have you ever been guilty of having a condescending attitude about another person's weakness? How can we dare to think we can access the soul-cleansing blood that delivers us from the cesspool of our secret sins, and then look down on another member of Christ's Body in disdain?

How dare they discuss her as though she were a wayward child in need of a good strapping!

The enormous condescension of posterity" was the magnificent phrase employed by E. P. Thompson to remind us that we must never belittle the past popular struggles and victories (as well as defeats) that we are inclined to take for granted.

He's such a gargantuan asshole. A giant, stupid orifice. A walking, talking cranny.

One characteristic of racism is that children are treated like adults and adults are treated like children. Watching a parent being debased like a child is the deepest shame. I cannot count the number of times I have seen my parents condescended to or mocked by white adults.

Admiradores A admiração, mesmo a mais calorosa, tem sempre um subentendido de condescendência, isto é, a certeza de uma superioridade.