Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. — Ann Landers
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. — Imelda Marcos
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of… — Bryant H. McGill
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. — John Mellencamp
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. — Marilyn Monroe
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless… — Richard M. Nixon
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different… — James Otis
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th.… — Jose Saramago
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming… — Haile Selassie
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. — William Wycherley
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me. — Rachel Zoe
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays… — William Shakespeare
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge… — Dag Hammarskjold
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak;… — Richard Dawkins
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon… — George Orwell
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty… — Henry David Thoreau

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