Mean Quote by Walter Bagehot

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

— Charles Bukowski

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

“Any person's meanness of character and silliness of mind can be ugly and also seen in every activity and performance of that person, who…

— Ehsan Sehgal

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than…

— Laurence Sterne

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

— Henepola Gunaratana

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

— Honore de Balzac

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

— Oscar Wilde

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

— Mason Cooley

Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes…

— Fanny Burney

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred,…

— Johannes Brahms