Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron) How so? (Artemis) By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A clever enemy would kiss my hand, then stab at my back while I was distracted. (Stryker) A cowardâ€™s action. Truly. Donâ€™t insult either one… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why are you doing this? (Rafael) Because lifeâ€™s too short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And loveâ€™s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real… — Victor Hugo
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a… — Rachel Vincent
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end.… — Rohinton Mistry
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Master said, â€œThe gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.â€ (Analects 4.16) — Confucius
Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare… — Shashi Tharoor
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a… — Jay Asher
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. — Mark Twain
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and… — Anais Nin
You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty… — Christine Feehan
I donâ€™t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like — Adele
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? — George Eliot
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty. — Lillian Hellman
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace… — Chuck Palahniuk
Iâ€™d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasnâ€™t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out… — David Sedaris

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271 authors contributed a total of 336 Petty Quotes, led by these top contributors: