Top 29 Condescended Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Condescended

#1. When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.

Stephen Gaghan

#2. Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli

#3. These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never really be meant for such fineness, that the few expensive antiques we did have had fallen to us from a higher life and now condescended to live among us.

Nicole Krauss

#4. The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.

Adam Levin

#5. God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

George Whitefield

#6. Consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him. Mr. Sowerberry came down soon after. Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Sowerberry appeared. Oliver having 'caught it,' in fulfilment of Noah's prediction, followed that young gentleman down the stairs to breakfast.

Charles Dickens

#7. Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time.

Julia Quinn

#8. The last condescended from Academy spires Pretended at life with a cold, dead heart Face like a crypt, from a family of liars Quietly, quietly played . . . her . . . part. - Children's nursery rhyme

K.D. Castner

#9. Every sleep doctor I've talked to said it was an urban legend that you shouldn't wake up a sleepwalker. All that will happen is that you will get condescended to.

Mike Birbiglia

#10. O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it ...

Anne Desclos

#11. Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

John Irving

#12. My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

Claire Danes

#13. History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.

Edward Gibbon

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

Sherman Alexie

#15. Mason glowers, shaking his head. I've ascended, descended, even condescended, and the List's not ended, - but haven't yet trans-cended a blessed thing, thankee.

Thomas Pynchon

#16. Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

Matt Groening

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

Salman Rushdie

#18. Thus, he had thrust his hands and sex into her, ransacked and ravaged her mouth and rear, but condescended only to place his lips upon her fingertips.

Pauline Reage

#19. He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.

Robert Boyle

#20. What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

Geoffrey Rush

#21. I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!

John Wesley

#22. When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

David Byrne

#23. Freedom is within.
Only God can give it to you.

Ocean Crisstopher Poet

#24. Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

Michael Tilson Thomas