Top Petty Quotes

Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or salvage their respect for you. The truth is this: If they care they will go out of t...

Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.

Petty Definition

(superl.) Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.

I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn't allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath...

The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is...

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

Being petty allows you to make mountains out of molehills.

The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Just when she was about to reemerge from the depths of her sorrows, someone shook her again. This wasn't the jolt that usually awakens the senses. This was what it takes to finally rise over all that...

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 can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.

To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public.

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was system, and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was industry, indecision when right was caution, an...