Petty

Famous quotes containing the word petty:

    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)

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

    Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
    Like a colossus, and we petty men
    Walk under his huge legs and peep about
    To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)