Petty Quotes · Page 18

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

— Agnes Repplier

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

— Michel de Montaigne

I think a very clear cut example of - dare I say - plagiarism is the Sam Smith-Tom Petty situation, where you…

— Ben Gibbard

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.

— Robin Sharma

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of…

— Joey Comeau

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself,…

— Nic Pizzolatto

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

— William Wycherley

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

— Anonymous

Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

— Tom Petty

I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just…

— Alycia Debnam Carey

The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities…

— Bob Menendez

Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger…

— Robert Fisk

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that…

— Harold S. Kushner

As he grew older, his material was just as relevant and just as exciting and the band's just as killer... It seems…

— Adam Granduciel

I believe in what Richard Petty Motorsports is doing and their desire to win races.

— Bubba Wallace

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

— Agnes Repplier

The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.

— Marine Le Pen

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law,…

— Will Rogers

the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for…

— Ethel Smyth

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

— Aesop

I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced,…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His…

— Hannah More

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

— Francis Bacon

I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the…

— James G. Stavridis