Meanness Quotes · Page 3

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

— Peter Medawar

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of…

— Plato

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

— Cormac McCarthy

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

— Jeannette Walls

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

— Confucius

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

— Rumi

“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

“We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by…

— Donna Goddard

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only,…

— Swami Vivekananda

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of…

— Dalai Lama

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

Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people…

— Bram Stoker

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect…

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Dickens

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

— Walter Bagehot

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

— George Santayana

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

— William Shakespeare

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I wanted to know the history of meanness before being mean person so that my meanness also could be precedent

— Mak_786

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

— Will Rogers

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

— James Martineau

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

— Voltaire

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

— Harry S. Truman

Twitter is an open forum and it brings the meanness in people. It shouldn't be taken seriously as at times it's a…

— Vikram Bhatt

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

— Lord Chesterfield

“And don’t say, “Now I can pay them back for all their meanness to me! I’ll get even!”

— Al Fike

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

— Aristotle