Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned small speech cantankerous.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.

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.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism those petty good feelings pity and remorse?

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

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.

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

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

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

Deceit is the game of petty spirits and that is by nature a woman's quality.