Petty Quotes

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“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 their way to learn the truth. If they don't then they really don't value you as a human being. The moment you have to sell people on who you are is the moment you let yourself believe that every good thing you have ever done or accomplished was invisible to the world. And, it is not!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Giving an insignificant thing your attention is a form of self-disrespect.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The guilt you felt
when you were smiling
and others were suffering,
the guilt you felt
when you were petty with friends
and impatient with your parents,
when you were rude to your teachers
and didn’t stand up for strangers,
that guilt
is marvellous.
It proves that you are human,
that you want to be better.
Thank this guilt for teaching you,
for making you aware.
And now endeavour to better yourself.
It is a lifelong work to become
the person we want to be.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Listen, there are different ways of getting closure and one of those ways might be to make someone miserable for the sake of satisfying your petty soul.”
― Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man

“It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“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 how they thought about themselves.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Don’t be unwilling to take those little steps; in them are residing great journeys. Move on.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Let your words be petty and actions plenty!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“No, thanks," I reply. "I don't like fried dough.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public.”
― Val McDermid, Insidious Intent

“He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he felt just then. But it wasn't enough to stop him.”
― Riccardo Bruni, The Lion and the Rose

“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 is petty about this world. Jealousy, insecurity and of course, betrayal. Awakening the senses was meant for another day, another time.”
― Anushka Bhartiya

“Bit by bit, whatever you see to be petty becomes plenty.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“On Religion - I compare the god of the Christian bible to a psychotic, jealous girlfriend. Who else but a crazy girlfriend would demand that a man mutilate his penis as a sign that he loves her? Who else but a crazy boyfriend would do it?!”
― Marsha Hinds

“A petty person often misses out on what is pretty in life.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Partly, I still felt something of the sheer unholy excitement which I had experienced initially at the thought of a friend (especially this one) in trouble.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“I suppose you think I should be thanking you, for stepping up to assist in reviving me.'

'I have no illusions that the day you thank me for anything, Rhysand, is the day the burning fires of hell go cold.'

'Poetic.'

A low snarl.

Too easy. It was far too easy to bait him, rile him. And though I reminded myself of the wall, of the peace we needed, I said, 'You saved my mate's life on several occasions. I will always be thankful for that.'

I knew the words found their mark. My mate.

Low. It was a low blow. I had everything- everything I'd wished for, dreamed of, begged the stars to grant me.

He had nothing. Had been given everything and squandered it. He didn't deserve my pity, my sympathy.

No, Tamlin deserved what he'd brought upon himself, this husk of a life.

He deserved every empty room, every snarl of thorns, every meal he had to hunt for himself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

“Want some? Unless you're here to continue our earlier argument, in which case, none for you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Love makes humans petty and cruel, Full of arrogance, lacking in decorum. Suspicious and paranoid beyond reason. And though it cannot last forever, it drives humans to sacrifice all they have.”
― Yūji Kaku, 地獄楽 12 [Jigokuraku 12]

“But with Saumaise, I conceive, my warfare is concluded, since he is now dead - how dead, I will not say: for I will not make his loss of life matter of reproach to him, as he did my loss of sight to me.”
― John Milton, Second Defense of the People of England

“I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Cat got your tongue and several other useful organs?”
― Destiny Henderson, Dreaded Dinner Party

“Don't worry about petty things.”
― Richie Norton

“Well, you're not starving, Dio. That much is evident"
- Pieton to Dio”
― Emily Holleman, Cleopatra's Shadows

“When someone who hates you admits your work is good, believe them. That kind of compliment fought its way out of the trenches of pettiness, past barbed-wire fences of disdain, and still made it to your ears. That’s not praise; that’s a hostage escaping to tell the truth.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Everything is petty, I suppose, when you've been to hell and back.”
― Jerri Chisholm, Escaping Eleven