Quotes About Patronizing

#1. Mab: You know, Bill, you should see an optometrist about that rolling-eye problem. Makes you look rude and patronizing.

Jennifer Crusie

#2. Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."
"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.

Terry Pratchett

#3. It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring;

Marcus Aurelius

#4. the phrase "stay-at-home mom" is patronizing and faintly derogatory, like "stick-in-the-mud mom" or "sit-in-the-corner mom." Do we talk about a "chained-to-the-desk mom" or a "stuck-in-traffic mom" or a "languishing-in-meetings mom"?

Anthony M. Esolen

#5. there is nothing more patronizing to an Infertile than to hear a new mother complaining,

Liane Moriarty

#6. The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

Michael Kenny

#7. One more patronizing comment and I will have you slice off and nail your own tongue to the palace gate.

Marissa Meyer

#8. Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same
with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Mother Teresa

#9. It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.

Richard Belzer

#10. you will need to figure out what you wish to do with your time." He said in a sickening and patronizing tone. He might as well have been talking to an aimless teenager flailing to launch into the world.

K.J. Kilton

#11. Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but ...

Malorie Blackman

#12. Nothing patronizing, nothing sexist--just a slightly outdated politeness, and the general regard it might suggest.

Nickolas Butler

#13. The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.

Anthony Lewis

#15. To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

Sacha Baron Cohen

#16. Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

Brad Bird

#17. Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most ... women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?

Christina Hoff Sommers

#18. Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.

Timothy Keller

#19. I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

Terry Gilliam

#20. I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

Harry Lennix

#21. But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Martin Schulz

#22. [To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

Mary McLeod Bethune

#23. Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it's hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and patronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well-meaning.

Tom Shales

#24. Jon gave Simon a patronizing pat on the shoulder. "I'm going to miss your witty repartee this summer, Lewis."
"I'm going to hope you get eaten by a spider demon this summer, Cartwright."
George slipped an arm around both of them, grinning maniacally and humming "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?

Cassandra Clare

#25. How old are you?" she asked.
My answer was automatic and ingrained. "Seventeen."
"And how long have you been seventeen?"
I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. "A while," I admitted.
"Okay," she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me.

Stephenie Meyer

#26. You know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if-you-become-just-like-me-you'll-be-free bullshit,

Marlon James

#27. Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

Tammy Bruce

#28. We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige ...
... and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology theories on us ...
... and those stupid adults who only judge us by our outward appearances ...
We'll erase them all from our consciousness.

Bisco Hatori

#29. In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#30. Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling."
"I didn't mean no harm," I said and kissed her. "That a new dress?"
"Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.

Dashiell Hammett

#31. Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

FKA Twigs

#32. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

Jonathan Culler

#33. You're very patronizing," I pointed out. "Very clever of you to notice, girlie. Have a look at this.

Jasper Fforde

#34. The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

Thomas Paine

#35. People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

Salman Khan

#36. I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.

David Weigel

#37. Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#38. He calls you dear Sabine - Patronizing fart!

Nick Bantock

#39. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Alex Kingston

#40. It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

Mac Barnett

#41. Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

Patrick Macnee

#42. In building the helping relationship, encouragement - via positive reinforcement - certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting. My

Edgar H Schein

#43. A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

George Eliot

#44. Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

Edward Carey

#45. I don't think we should spend any time wandering around that remote possibility. It's nice of you to wish me well, but actually I find it unbearably patronizing.

Maeve Binchy

#46. He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

Jeremy Northam

#47. There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

Glen Cook

#48. No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.

E.B. White

#49. I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

Helena Bonham Carter

#50. Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic, Byronic, almost to the point of parody.

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

#51. You said fucking two minutes ago," Bruce protested.
"Sure I did," Joe said, his tone patronizing.
"You did," Bruce insisted. He was two tables away now, but apparently this was the argument that he didn't want to let go.
"I fucking doubt it," Joe said

Kate Sherwood

#52. Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Dito Montiel

#53. In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

George Bernard Shaw

#54. She kissed him softly, her eyes closed as her body finally relaxed. "I love you," she whispered. "I'm an idiot."

"Well, yes, but you're adorable when you're an idiot."

She punched him in the shoulder. Hard. "Patronizing much?

Carrie Ann Ryan

#55. During her life she was in Rivera's shadow. She was framed as the 'Wife of the Master Mural Painter [who] Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art', as the patronizing headline of the Detroit News proclaimed in February 1933. Today, Rivera is known as Frida's husband.

Gannit Ankori

#56. I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

Wendy O. Williams

#57. It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

E. M. Forster

#58. Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

George Papandreou

#59. Need some help? Alex asked, watching me with patronizing eyes. I had to collect myself

Jessica Sorensen

#60. Thanks for putting that in terms I can easily grasp,' said Malcolm, without showing the patronizing bitch the slightest sign of irony.

Edward St. Aubyn

#61. One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

Marisha Pessl