Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm… — Elvis Costello
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you… — Denis Diderot
If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become. — Sammy Hagar
We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so… — Katherine Harris
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. — Sydney J. Harris
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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