Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed… — John Fowles
This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty… — Ilona Andrews
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. — Lisa Kleypas
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or… — Christopher Hitchens
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed… — Nick Hornby
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air… — Karl Rahner
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh-… — Jean Webster
I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was… — Anne Frank
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications… — James Allen
I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which… — James Frey
She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase. — Stephenie Meyer
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit. — Megan Whalen Turner
They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive. — Neil Gaiman
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. — Chuck Palahniuk
The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting… — Pope Francis
The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. — Confucius
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to… — Winston Churchill
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. — Samuel Johnson

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