Quotes About Condescending Friends

#1. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Larry Niven

#2. All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly way not to give up real work for the sake of scribbling.

Anton Chekhov

#3. Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

Ken Livingstone

#4. You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time." But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time.

David Sedaris

#5. I expected him to do his usual thing of Oh, Sophie, but that is impossible b/c of this big word, and that big word, and also this abstract concept.

Rachel Hawkins

#6. I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Albert Einstein

#7. She felt one thousand years old. She also felt like maybe she was a condescending brat. She wanted her bike. She wanted her friends, who were also one-thousand-year-old condescending brats. She wanted to live in a world where she was surrounded by one-thousand-year-old condescending brats.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Max Frisch

#9. The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

Philip Sidney

#10. I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

Neal Stephenson

#11. If the infeckshun from the band takes Viola," I say, "you'll beg me to kill you after what I'll do to you."

"I believe you," says the Mayor.

Patrick Ness

#12. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

William Gilmore Simms

#13. In the water is a woman of such beauty that her skin is paler than the white marble and her hair is darker than the night skies. He falls in love with her at once, and she with him, and he takes her to the castle and makes her his wife.

Philippa Gregory