Petty

Famous quotes containing the word petty:

“One will seldom go wrong in attributing extreme actions to vanity, moderate ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“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 (1904–1991)