Meanness Quotes

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

— Seneca the Elder

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

— Charles Sumner

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

— Homer

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.”

— Gillian Flynn

Meanness is a sign of weakness.

— Anonymous

“I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.”

— Gillian Flynn

“My meanness has an ego too, often bigger than my own.”

— Angelos Michalopoulos

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Rumi

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

— Confucius

We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

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

— Mak_786

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— George Santayana

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

— Akhenaton

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

— Charles Dickens

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…

— Florence Nightingale

“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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Dalai Lama

“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

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

“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

“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

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

— Bram Stoker

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

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

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

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is…

— Dean Koontz