best quotations about
Pettiness |
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Quotations
 | People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 12 likes |
 | How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy! — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 11 likes |
 | He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 8 likes |
 | We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 8 likes |
 | Finance is a slave's word. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 8 likes |
 | Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 7 likes |
 | When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 6 likes |
 | The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
 | We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 4 likes |
 | If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | I don’t know which is worse: that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | Anything that just costs money is cheap. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 1 likes |
 | The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
| Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | What a horrible invention, the bourgeois, don’t you think? — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 1 likes |
| Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 1 likes |
 | Ambition more easily takes possession of small souls than of great ones, as fire spreads to straw and not to stones, to huts and not to palaces. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
| When many gather together, people become small. They are like Milton’s devils who are forced to become pygmies in order to enter Pandemonium. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
 | The man’s tail came off, but the need to wag it remained. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
Personal Stories
 | I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 5 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | The sun is erupting inside us and we keep our palms on our mouths scared. — Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Greek poet, Nobel 1979 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | A man completely enslaved to money will never be just. Ο χρημάτων παντελών ήσσων ουκ αν ποτέ είη δίκαιος. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | Man tend to trample the fallen. Βροτοίς πέφυκε τον πεσόντα λακτίσαι. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Mediocre. A mound of petty ideas. Full of petty ambitions. She's all bed and kitchen. — from the film The Conformist (1970) 5 likes |
