Quotes by Meanness I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness. Aleksandar Hemon meannessenvycriticize Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. Aristotle meannessangerage What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy. Bob Colacello meannessintimacyemotion I guess there's just a meanness in this world Bruce Springsteen meannessthis-worldworld A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. Charles Sumner meannessnationsmean Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Cormac McCarthy gone-awaymeannesssun Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right. Dennis Prager meannessleftistsechoes All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness. George Saunders meannesstraditionsake There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. George Santayana meannessidealsstupidity There`s some nastiness, there`s some meanness there. There`s something going on in the mosques and other places. Donald Trump nastinessmeannessmosques About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well. Harry S. Truman meannessmenmean There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. James A. Garfield meannessmean We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. James Martineau suffragemeannessselfishness Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned. Malcolm Forbes meannessanger Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it. Maya Soetoro-Ng rare-occasionmeannessupset I've met little meanness, wherever I went. Reynolds Price meannessmetslittles An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Samuel Johnson crueltymeannesscharacteristics Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness. Sir Fulke Greville meannessgenerosityill I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. William Hazlitt meannessproudclass 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 meannessequalitydifferences12»
