Petty

Famous quotes containing the word petty:

    “Be petty at first, and a gentleman later.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “My fate cries out,
    And makes each petty artery in this body
    As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings—pity and remorse?”
    —Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)