Meanest Quotes
111 quotes by 96 authors
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
— Mary Astell
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I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.
— Amy Adams
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
— A. C. Benson
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It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
— William Shakespeare
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
— E. W. Howe
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
— Thomas Carlyle
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We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can…
— William Ralph Inge
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
— H. L. Mencken
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In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.
— Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
— Agnes Repplier
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
— William Wordsworth
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Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of…
— George Washington
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. That is the way of life, from…
— Neil Gaiman
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