Petty Quotes

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our nation's future is at stake.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down.

You belong somewhere you feel free.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.