Petty Quotes

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

You belong somewhere you feel free.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.