Petty

Famous quotes containing the word petty:

“When petty people get into power they consider themselves unexcelled in the world.”
—Chinese proverb.

“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)

“I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)