Meanest Quotes

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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
I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me. — Amy Adams
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson
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
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
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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
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
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
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
In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there. — Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
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
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. — William Wordsworth
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
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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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