Quotes About Patronising People

#1. We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Charles Dance

#2. Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

Billy Connolly

#3. ...go forward with the inclination to live with a faith that embodies action, help a neighbor, fight for a cause, love your family.

William A. Petit Jr.

#4. A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

Mark Haddon

#5. I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#6. You're so good with people. You say all the right things to make people feel better about themselves. You don't do it to be patronising at all; you do it because you're a good person.

N.R. Walker

#7. There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. It's simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what's wrong with them, but why bother?

Charles Lee

#9. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred.

C.S. Lewis

#10. My immediate family is real close-knit.

Kenan Thompson

#11. The process of the growth of a team is the process of changing people.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

Laura Linney

#13. Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.

Joshua Harris

#14. Be kind to yourself and others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

Slavoj Zizek