Littleness Quotes

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

— Alexander Pope

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

— George Bernard Shaw

All finery is a sign of littleness.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Envy is littleness of soul.

— William Hazlitt

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

— William Hazlitt

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

— H. G. Wells

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

— Miles Franklin

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

— Wendell Phillips

Dont let the littleness in others bring out the littleness in you.

— JREYES

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

— Saint Francis de Sales

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

“However...who said that thing about "the littleness of life that art exaggerates"?”

— Barnes Flaubert

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

— Okakura Kakuzo

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space…

— William Hazlitt

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an…

— Kenneth Patchen

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The theology of littleness is a basic category of Christianity. After all, the tenor of our faith is that God's distinctive greatness…

— Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict