"Patronizingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... explained patronizingly, "is a constellation within which there are two colliding galaxies. These colliding galaxies produce the most powerful electromagnetic radiations in the universe—an ...
— Master of None • Lloyd Neil Goble
... could earn little that way. I never was a good walker." "You're a woman," said Herbert, patronizingly. "Women are not expected ...
— Herbert Carter's Legacy • Horatio Alger
... said patronizingly to her one day, after listening in futile seriousness to her unintelligible jargon. Forthwith he essayed to teach her to speak English, and, humoring his every freak, she sought to profit. She would fix intent eyes upon him and turn her head askew to listen heedfully while ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... will. That's their privilege, Miss Pickett, and I'm not at all interested, I assure you." She smiled patronizingly at the postmistress. "When I want somebody to protect my good name, Miss Pickett, I'll send for a man. Until then you may consider ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... woman's voice, an astonished rustle of excitement swept through the audience, and when the chairman, Charles Davies, Professor of Mathematics at West Point, had recovered from his surprise, he patronizingly asked, "What will ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz
... fellow," Rangely replied, rather patronizingly. "Though, of course, I can understand that you wouldn't care for that kind ...
— The Philistines • Arlo Bates
... table far away from the great man. We ordered drinks. Paragot emptied his glass in an absent-minded manner, still under the shock of his downfall. But a few short months ago he had ruled in this place as king. Now he was patronizingly presented to the snub-nosed, idiot usurper by Felicien Garbure. His friend, Berzelius Paragot! Nom de Dieu! And he was assigned a humble place below the salt. Verily the world ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... gravely, almost solemnly: "You, Mr. Tape are a married man, and the father of a family, and your own experience, therefore, in the female line must be ample for a lifetime; but you, sir," continued the captain, patronizingly, addressing another of his auditors, "are, I believe, as yet 'unattached,' in a legal sense, and may therefore derive profit, as well as instruction, from an example of the way in which ardent and inexperienced youth is sometimes entrapped and bamboozled ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various
... for America's going through and I shall be out there with a show in a month," this wild youth said—and added patronizingly, "When I come back, it will be dinner upstairs, old chaps—and some of the best. Do you suppose that I could forget you? I would as soon forget my ...
— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton
... a good jump of yours," said the Bittern, patronizingly, as if jumps for life like that of Dot's Kangaroo were made every day, and he was a ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley
... was sort of fresh at first," he told Frog Parker patronizingly, "but I got along fine—lightest man on the squad. You ought to go away to ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... never mind. I'm going to Victoria myself, and when we get there I'll look up your place and find you your train," said Geoff, patronizingly. ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... I trust we may soon meet again," says the younger Miss Beresford, with rather a grand air, smiling upon him patronizingly. ...
— Rossmoyne • Unknown
... the sword-cut had rendered Barto imbecile, and pulled his hat down his forehead, and patted his shoulder, and bade him have cheer, patronizingly: but women do not so lightly lose their impression of a notable man. His wife checked him. Barto had shut his eyes, and hung swaying between them, as in drowsiness or drunkenness. Like his body, his ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... mumbled Smerdyakov, in a faint voice. "Has your honor been back long?" he added patronizingly, as though encouraging ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... to dawn on the quick-witted girl, but De Forrest said, patronizingly, "It requires a cultivated taste to appreciate such music as you ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe
... why—to make him love her. And, as has been said, he was both pleased and disgusted. Several times he attempted to leave, took his hat but still remained. But finally, when the general, his thick mustache reeking with tobacco, returned to the box and glanced at Nekhludoff patronizingly disdainful, as if he did not recognize him, Nekhludoff walked out before the door closed behind the general, and, finding ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
... between oceans since he was five years old. You might open the atlas, place your finger at random upon the name of a town, and Jacks would tell you the front names of three prominent citizens before you could close it again. He spoke patronizingly and even disrespectfully of Broadway, Beacon Hill, Michigan, Euclid, and Fifth avenues, and the St. Louis Four Courts. Compared with him as a cosmopolite, the Wandering Jew would have seemed a mere hermit. He had learned everything ...
— Options • O. Henry |
