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
Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature. — Jeannette Walls 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
Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.” — Phil Lester 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
“She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.” — Omar El Akkad 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
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
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
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
Strangely, meanness pays more than offering constructive and interesting commentary. Every season I think, "This is the last season. I'm not gonna… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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
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
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
The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the… — D. H. Lawrence 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
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Boy, that was mean, even by my standards," Maysilee says to me. "You can't choose your parents." "You could reject their business,"… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I have made up my mind to say my say. I shall do it kindly, distinctly; but I am going to do… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Jacks eyes took on the same disturbing, godforsaken look from the coach. 'It wasn't that long ago that I saw you in… — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
