My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to… — P.N. Elrod Copy Share Image
If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“I seriously wish that he had spent his entire childhood being serially arse-raped by teachers, scoutmasters, members of the clergy, relatives, policemen,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“and anyway it’s just the same old story -- a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made… — Susie Finkbeiner Copy Share Image
“I know I'm mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Sadness, lack of recognition, and loneliness turn into bitterness. When people believe that their identity is unrecognized, it feels like injustice—because it… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
But if there has been on this earth no real, perfect human life, no love that never cooled, no faith that never… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
![“I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual…” quote by Andrew Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f1/andrew-jackson-2317_american-people_i-trust-in-due-time-to-lay-the-perfidy-m_3021311.jpg)
