Patronise Me Quotes

#1. Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

David Rodigan

#2. Black Wind was Asha's longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would call it that, when Robb Stark had a wolf named Grey Wind. "Stark is grey and Greyjoy's black," he murmured, smiling, "but it seems we're both windy.

George R R Martin

#3. There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.

Thomas Foran

#4. This wasn't the sixth month of the year; it was 'six months after Elizabeth knew she was to become a mother'. Imagine the Lord using an expectant mother's growing waistline to measure time! Never doubt for a moment that women matter to the Almighty.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#5. Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.

John Stride

#6. Creativity starts' with a simple master piece

Jonel

#7. The best friendships are like mobile phones, I think--you can't explain exactly how they work, but you're just relieved they do.

Hester Browne

#8. Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

Joel Salatin

#9. Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

John Boyne

#11. Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

Suze Orman

#12. That curiously clean, semi-transparent look of the genteel, isolated poor.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

King George V

#14. [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.

Michael Morpurgo

#16. according to the unanimous opinion of anthropologists, the organization of enforced labor is one of the essentials of civilization.

Stanton Coit