Patronise Me Quotes & Sayings

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death. — D. A. Carson

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers. — John Boyne

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

Johnny liked being with Iona; it made him feel like a man. She was petite - a good five inches shorter than him - but it was more than that. She let him pay for her, patronise her, made no demands on his time other than what he was already willing to offer. She made him feel nineteen as well, in her bed with sheets that smelt like cheap laundrette detergent, in bars drinking Snakebite from pint glasses still warm from the dishwasher. — Erin Lawless

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

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

I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so we can be where we are, and two, to just educate the newer generation. I'm being educated by all these films [ The Root and Selma] and the things I've had the opportunity to be a part of, and kids even younger than me are being educated, too. It's important to make sure those stories never die. — Stephan James

[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

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time. — Christopher Hitchens

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created. — Noam Chomsky

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

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know. — Kim Edwards