Top Petty Quotes
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
Ivan Turgenev
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Ouida
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
Jeff Goldblum
Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams
Aesop 
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Pierre Corneille 
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Andrew Shue 
Ivan Turgenev 
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot 
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
Sammy Hagar
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Graham Greene
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuang Zi
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I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
John Mellencamp
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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Zi
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Popular Petty Authors
Emile M. CioranRichard M. NixonW. Somerset MaughamPierre CorneilleBryant H. McGillDenis DiderotGeorge Carlin AesopTahar Ben JellounWalter BagehotAnton ChekhovGraham GreeneXun ZiSydney J. HarrisWalter Annenberg
John MellencampSammy HagarAndrew ShueJeff GoldblumRick DankoImelda MarcosJack AdamsIvan TurgenevWilliam WycherleyJames OtisAlexander HerzenJohn CarmackGeorge GroszRobert Jackson Zhuangzi
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