Meanness Quotes
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while to be here at all.
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.
The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.
When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they’re obviously missing something from their lives.
Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.
Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.
Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.
Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.
That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.
Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.
