#petty

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

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. ↗

— Xun Zi

#men #merely #petty #public-spirited #scholars

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

— Xun Zi

#conversely #gentleman #loathed #loved #man

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. ↗

— George Carlin

#petty #sweat #sweaty #things

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#boxer #brothers #chief #father #football

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

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. ↗

— William Wycherley

#close #death #eyes #foes #hunger

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#fights #i #like #petty #politician

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

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' ↗

— George Grosz

#among #armed #bourgeoisie #culture #other