Peter Dinklage Quotes

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

... condescending SOBs

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

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

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

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

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

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

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

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Your questions are stupid!

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.

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

Men get intimidated by me. They feel I am very high-handed and snobbish.

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

If you feel you're being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

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

It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves.

Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.