Petty

Famous quotes containing the word petty:

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

    “Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)