The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing… — Linda Hunt 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
“Any person's meanness of character and silliness of mind can be ugly and also seen in every activity and performance of that… — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Sadness, lack of recognition, and loneliness turn into bitterness. When people believe that their identity is unrecognized, it feels like injustice—because it… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part,… — Theodor Mommsen 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 Shelley Copy Share Image
“Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
“The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Meanness always shows on people's faces. Sometimes you have to look hard for it. Sometimes it's just a part of a person's… — Erin Entrada Kelly Copy Share Image
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It's so difficult to be a mean person when u were born to make people laugh…. when people are mean towards u… — peekey Copy Share Image
The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Extremism is marked by a closed mind and a meanness of spirit - unwilling to listen, unwilling to reason, unwilling to compromise,… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
