#meanness

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#matrimony #meanness #union

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ↗

— William John Wills

#characteristics #consider #found #generally #higher

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#genius #meanness #mediocrity #poetry #funny

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ↗

— Ovid

#cool #die #fire #high-spirited #indeed

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March) ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#hurt #mean #meanness #louisa-may-alcott

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#capable #honour #meanness #party #political

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#i #lifetime #lot #meanness #observing

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#echo #leftists #meanness #right #those

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-loving #grace #helping-people #high-school #kind-women