Patron Quotations | Page 2

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.

Try not to patronize us next time, traveling us to New York, saying we're playing a home game.

Try not to patronize us next time, ... and fly us out to New York and say it's a home game.

My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep,/ A raiser of huge melons and of pine,/ A patron of some thirty charities.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.