Petty Quotes
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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
Mark Twain
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I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
Adele
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.
Margo Jefferson
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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emil Cioran
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The narrow-minded and petty sticklers for the formalities which hedge rank and office are the true vulgarians, however observant they be of etiquette.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
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A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day;Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
John Dryden
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People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.
Barack Obama
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I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
John Mellencamp
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If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
John Major
