Petty

Famous quotes containing the word petty:

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

“Be reflective ... and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become “theatricalized,” and you are lost, my friend; you are lost.”
—Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)

“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)