George Eliot Quotes

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

... condescending SOBs

One of the things I hate about TV for kids is that it conescends to them.

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

The mistake we make with many people is that we assume that we have the model. It is a type of condescension.

The contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so wilting: his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members of this House.

He is just about the nastiest little man I've ever known. He struts sitting down.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

… when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don’t happen to know it.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.

I turn a lot of jobs down because they are patronising.

People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.