I wanted to know the history of meanness before being mean person so that my meanness also could be precedent — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life. — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.” — Phil Lester Copy Share Image
“and while meanness is a function of the insensitive, grumpiness is merely a function of the dissatisfied.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing… — Linda Hunt Copy Share Image
I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
There's some nastiness, there's some meanness there. There's something going on in the mosques and other places. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The true measure of a man is not at his kindest, but his meanest. Meanness cannot be faked. — Majdi Rabah Copy Share Image
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“The more capable people are of inflicting pain, the deeper, more buried they are in illusion and fear.” — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life. — Ruby Gettinger Copy Share Image
