Patronisingly Quotes & Sayings

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. — Pico Iyer

But a cock does not enter a hen ... it enters a ... meow-meow! — Faraaz Kazi

So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?"
"Men's business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly.
"Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space. — Melina Marchetta

Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit. — Ludwig Von Mises

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night ... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees! — Tove Jansson

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do. — Lincoln Ellsworth

But I remind myself that I know you. I know your heart, and that will always stay the same, so I will always know you ... — Suzanne LaFleur

I think it's the snack food industry that's really pushing the marijuana legalization issue in California. — John Pappas

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you! — Lucas Remmerswaal

Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit that. It makes it more interesting - particularly for Kerans. 'Did I or did I not try to kill myself?' One of the few existential absolutes, far more significant than 'To be or not to be?', which merely underlines the uncertainty of the suicide, rather than the eternal ambivalence of his victim." He smiled down patronisingly at Kerans as the latter sat quietly in his chair, sipping at the drink Beatrice had brought him. "Kerans, I envy you the task of finding out - if you can. — J.G. Ballard

None of us know who we are any more. — Catherine Fisher

What's the difference between man and Superman? Man wears underwear under the trouser and superman wears it over the trouser. *** — Various

Our distrust is very expensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson