Meanness Quotes
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With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
Gautama Buddha -
Anonymity breeds meanness.
Sam Altman
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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
Aristotle -
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
William John Wills -
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.
Bob Colacello -
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
Confucius -
Meanness is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
Aristotle -
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt
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Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
Confucius -
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
William Hazlitt -
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
He was funny and focused and fierce. I mean the guy could be fierce. And there wasn’t anything mean about him. I didn’t understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.
William Hazlitt -
This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
William Shakespeare -
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
Todd Solondz -
I've met little meanness, wherever I went.
Reynolds Price -
I know I`m mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.
Elena Ferrante