Patronising Synonym Quotes & Sayings

He who does now know evil will fall into it. — Umar

The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people. — Jeff Smith

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow. — Patrick Demarchelier

When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable? — David Agus

All magic has consequences, Rump. Even small magic can have big consequences. — Liesl Shurtliff

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. — Gary Ackerman

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else. — Howard Jacobson

Eleven years she had lived in the dark house and its gloomy garden. He was jealous of the very light and air getting to her, and they kept her close. He stopped the wide chimneys, shaded the little windows, left the strong-stemmed ivy to wander where it would over the house-front, the moss to accumulate on the untrimmed fruit trees in the red-walled garden, the weeds to over-run its green and yellow walks. He surrounded her with images of sorrow and desolation. He caused her to be filled with fears of the place and of the stories that were told of it, and then on pretext of correcting them, to be left in it in solitude, or made to shrink about it in the dark. When her mind was most depressed and fullest of terrors, then, he would come out of one of the hiding-places from which he overlooked her, and present himself as her sole resource. — Charles Dickens

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men. — Wallace D. Wattles

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy — Robert Half

by the time the elevator doors opened on her floor, — Anthony Bruno

The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along-to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint. — Dana Gioia

as fellow pilgrims on the journey. In individual prayer, as we have seen, we have many ways of hearing and speaking with God, but in our wider spiritual life we are companioned and in conversation with friends in both the here and now and the 'great cloud of witness'. — Malcolm Guite

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul. — Cass Gilbert

A present has many faces to it, has it not? and one should consider all, before pronouncing an opinion as to its nature. — Charlotte Bronte