“Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“I know I'm mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to… — P.N. Elrod Copy Share Image
“There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of… — Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance,… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
But if there has been on this earth no real, perfect human life, no love that never cooled, no faith that never… — Frederick William Robertson 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
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“and anyway it’s just the same old story -- a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward… I was wrapped in the cocoon… — Arthur Ashe 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
We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life. — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Then tell them we've all got meanness in us...But tell them we have some good in us too. And the only thing… — Billie Letts Copy Share Image
We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Many public officials are using the power of their offices to defy the law of the land. Through their irresponsible actions, their… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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