30 Quotes About Condescension

Little people need to belittle.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

I have more flaws, more faults and more sins than common sense can comprehend; and the condescension in this sentence 'consequents' in more to end.

If they don’t understand you, some people will attack you. This is a sign of profound ignorance, which should never be tolerated.

Then she wants to say that, oh, Christ, of course she knows, the condescension Europeans shower on Americans is not always warranted; she's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one-woman card catalogue for useless knowledge.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels.