Petty

Famous quotes containing the word petty:

“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

“But each day brings its petty dust
Our soon-choked souls to fill,
And we forget because we must,
And not because we will.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“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)