Top 169 Meanest Quotes & Sayings

[A person?s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

I live in a world where there's magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

It's the meanest thing to abuse your power as a songwriter. To write pointedly about someone... it's kind of unfair to use them. They can't answer you or have a rebuttal.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.