Meanness Quotes

114 quotes by 92 authors

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents… — George Bernard Shaw
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to… — Jean de la Bruyere
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. — William Hazlitt
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. — Charles Caleb Colton
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which… — Robert Green Ingersoll
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and… — Florence Nightingale
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which… — William Hazlitt
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us… — George Sand
O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time… — Blaise Pascal
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln
I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with. — Muhammad Ali
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from… — Linda Hunt
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a… — Hal Crowther
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Plato
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — Gautama Buddha

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