Meanness Quotes

114 Meanness quotes by 90 unique authors

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. — Walter Bagehot
I've met little meanness, wherever I went. — Reynolds Price
Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this… — Hilaire Belloc
They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world. — Bruce Springsteen
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with… — Mark Twain
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend… — Nathan Bedford Forrest
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. — Will Rogers
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies… — Rose Macaulay
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to… — Charles Caleb Colton
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early… — Arthur Ashe
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. — Benjamin Disraeli
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's… — Barbara Kingsolver
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. — Dennis Prager
Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right. — Dennis Prager
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by… — Bertrand Russell
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. — George Sand
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down.… — Todd Solondz
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of… — John Steinbeck
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair… — Matt Taibbi
You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness… — Iyanla Vanzant
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You… — Amy Tan
Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen… — James M. Barrie
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind. — Alice Munro

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