We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life. — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau 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
The true measure of a man is not at his kindest, but his meanest. Meanness cannot be faked. — Majdi Rabah 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
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Anonymous 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
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
The cruelty and the meanness, that's why I'm not, I don't have a social media account that's public. — Ashley Biden 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a… — William Jones 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
