Quotes for All
I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don’t feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so I simply try to tell what happened, or what I imagine happened. I also think it helps to let the reader fill in a lot of the blanks. Melodrama is patronizing. With a … Read more
It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave. E. M. Forster
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. E. B. White
I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing… David Weigel
Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election. This attitude that government is better at making decisions than you are because you are too stupid to know what is good for you is a hallmark of patronizing, arrogant and condescending liberalism. … Read more
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But … Read more
About California… I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it’s sort of both. Californians don’t have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times. Alex Kingston
Californians don’t have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times. Alex Kingston