Meanness Quotes · Page 3

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

— Charles Dickens

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

— Confucius

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

— Alice Munro

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

— Gautama Buddha

“Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.”

— Walter Kirn

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

— Bruce Springsteen

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

— Aristotle

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a…

— Irving Layton

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“Life is too short to suffer anybody's meanness, which is what you can learn eating shrimp with store-bought coleslaw, if you look…

— Valerie Hobbs

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee;…

— Akhenaton

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly…

— Isabella Beeton

“When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they’re obviously missing something from their lives.”

— Donald L. Hicks

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and…

— J. R. Moehringer

“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

I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I…

— John Taylor

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

We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or…

— Peter Medawar

Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

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

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

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Material means that hide man's meanness fail to reflect his moral richness.”

— B.S. Murthy

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

— Harry S. Truman

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

— Will Rogers

“Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.”

— Bryant McGill

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

— James Martineau

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.

— Matt Lauer

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

— Bob Colacello

Maybe she is mean because her heart has been broken so many times that her meanness protects her from being hurt again.

— Anonymous

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

— Muhammad Ali

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

— Jake Tapper

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

— James A. Garfield

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

— Peggy McIntosh