Top 100 Be Mean Quotes
#1. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.
Enid Blyton
#2. I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.
Steve Carell
#3. Foolish potato, talking to her like that won't work. You've got to be mean and show off your foil-wrapped rigidity.
Michael Diack
#4. I didn't want to like him back. I tried to be mean to him."
"I thought you were just mean," Reagan said. "I liked that about you.
Rainbow Rowell
#5. Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
Charles Dickens
#7. One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.
Sigmund Freud
#8. My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean ... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.
Bill O'Reilly
#9. I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.
Sigourney Weaver
#10. Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
Ian Anderson
#11. Money can't change who we are. All it does is magnify our true natures. If you're mean and selfish, you have more to be mean and selfish with. If you're grateful and loving, you have more to appreciate and give.
Anthony Robbins
#12. If you want to be mean to each other, just buy a country together and blow each other up. Then we'd have no terrorists left.
Tara Reid
#13. If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
Sojourner Truth
#14. When someone is beautiful, that gives people an excuse to go out of their way to be mean, as if someone who's beautiful isn't really deep, doesn't really hurt and isn't really a human being.
Cybill Shepherd
#15. You don't want to be mean to people, but some people are real assholes. And you can't say that on TV - or, you can, but probably, as a celebrity, I can't get away with it. Trust me. Unless you're somebody who can say anything they want, I guess, like Donald Trump.
Jackee Harry
#16. I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
Zooey Deschanel
#17. Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?
Saint John Chrysostom
#18. Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
Adriana Lima
#19. I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.
Rodney King
#20. Life too short to hold grudges, hate, be negative, be mean, and unfriendly.
Jennifer M. Malone
#21. I always want to take everybody down! But I think you can do it with a smile on your face and be nice and talking to them. You don't have to be mean or rude.
Lorena Ochoa
#22. The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
Simon Cowell
#23. Zane met Ty's eyes. "I can't imagine being anywhere else. Although I suppose if it becomes worrisome, we can take a trip out to Austin for a couple of weeks now and then. You know. Vacation." Ty frowned. "No need to be mean.
Abigail Roux
#24. But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#25. A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter ... I'm out.
Steven Soderbergh
#26. I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts.
Stendhal
#28. Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.
Hal David
#29. If the new THING is to be mean, I don't care if I fit in, I ain't doing it.
Sydney Wilhelmy
#31. I feel that familiar impulse, to be mean to her so she forgets what I said, so she doesn't ask me any questions. What
Veronica Roth
#32. For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.
Michael Schur
#33. Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.
Robert Thurman
#34. You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age ... and you have your own TV show.
Chelsea Handler
#35. I've always kind of made sure to maintain the sense of who I am and never be mean or cruel or snotty to anyone. Because, at the end of the day, it's not going to help you last in the business, and who wants to be around someone like that? I don't want to turn into 'that guy.' That guy!
Leonardo DiCaprio
#36. No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.
Nikki Giovanni
#37. I tried living as a very nice person, but there's no need to be nice .. you have to be mean to survive
Kim Heechul
#38. Do your squats eat, your vegetables, wear red lipstick, [and] don't let boys be mean to you.
Kendall Jenner
#39. Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don't make me mean. I don't want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I'll give you anything in the world, and if I haven't got it, why, I'll go for to get it. I don't want to be mean. I don't want to be lonely. For Jesus' sake, Amen.
John Steinbeck
#40. Jack, sometimes you don't have to be mean to hurt someone.
R.J. Palacio
#41. Have you never seen a movie? Read a comic book? That's always how it starts - just a little temptation, just a little taste of evil, and then BAM, your light saber turns red and you're breathing through a big black mask and slicing off your son's hand just to be mean.
They looked at him blankly.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.
Bernie Brillstein
#43. This is when I learned that nice people sometimes felt they had to pretend to be mean and awful.
Matthew Quick
#44. I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.
Rhys Hughes
#45. Jody said, "Ma, you're shore good."
"Oh, yes. When it's rations."
"Well, I'd a heap ruther you was good about rations and mean about other things."
"Oh, I be mean, be I?"
"Only about jest a very few things," he soothed her.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#46. It's not our intention to be mean. That's just within us.
Simon Cowell
#47. I'm not trying to be mean,' Casamir says.
'Intent doesn't always matter.
Kameron Hurley
#48. I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.
Ellen DeGeneres
#49. I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.
Lizzy Caplan
#50. I thought it must have been scary to be an Apatosaurus because he just wanted to be nice but there was probably a lot of pressure to be mean because he was a dinosaur.
Jesse Eisenberg
#51. The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.
Rachel Hamilton
#52. I don't have any siblings, but I have best friends that I have known since kindergarten that I'm protective of. If they call me and tell me someone was mean to them at school - I want to go to school and be mean to that person and try to stand up for them.
Miranda Cosgrove
#53. I'm serious, Mar, I don't know how to act around him now. I can't be nice, because he'll hate that. But I can't be mean just to be nice."
"You really need medication."
"I'm in a quandary. A Catch-22. I'm screwed.
Kristin Walker
#54. One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
Sigmund Freud
#55. And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that
David Bowie
#56. Cactus face over there doesn't look happy," Audrey whispered and we both giggled. "Maize calls that resting bitch face," I said and immediately felt bad for repeating it. "Let's not be mean. Maybe she's just constipated.
Giselle Fox
#57. We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.
Byron Katie
#58. People don't think I'm big enough to be mean. I don't look big enough, but I am.
Brian Urlacher
#59. My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#60. A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
Aristotle.
#61. Sometimes is good to be in patience, it can be mean understand, sometimes patience can describe as sacrifice , but everytime it hurting ourself
Tun Teja
#62. My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
George Brett
#63. I'm too busy having fun to be mean and nasty.
Jason Giambi
#64. I think about how nobody knows how long they have in the world. And how we only get a certain number of words to say and share. I'd hate for the last words that come out of my mouth to be mean ones. I don't want to waste my words" -Emma
Natalie Lloyd
#65. We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
Loretta Lynn
#66. People can be creul,people can be mean, what they say about us is not true it makes it there opinion, and it doesnt mean thats how the rest of the world see's it.
Rick Riordan
#67. Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
Confucius
#68. I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.
Alanis Morissette
#69. The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.
Colson Whitehead
#70. Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned.
Bill Lee
#71. Don't be a bully, don't be mean
Be a hero, don't be afraid to be seen.
Christina Engela
#72. The poor (horse) had sure got a reason to be mean, and I guess he's at the point where he figgers no human is his friend any more.
Will James
#73. I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.
Geri Halliwell
#74. I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be, that's just me.
Eminem
#75. My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.
Charlyne Yi
#77. Don't be mean to yourself, though . . .this is the only sin.
Anne Lamott
#78. Do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
Jack Kerouac
#80. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
Eileen Brennan
#81. Growing up and going out to bars in Australia - people do random things; cheesy pick-up lines ... you got to laugh. It's sweet. Some people come up with cracker lines, and you really can't be mean to them.
Nicky Whelan
#82. Thomas rolled his eyes. "I never said jack about me being braver than anybody. I'm just sick of hearing people's voices. Yours included."
Minho snickered. "Slinthead, when you try to be mean, it's just freaking hilarious.
James Dashner
#83. No matter how rough someone's life is, it's never an excuse to be mean.
Charles F. Glassman
#84. It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
Katey Sagal
#85. I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
Alton Brown
#86. Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#87. The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.
Dean Koontz
#89. Remember, everyone you meet is really trying to do the best they can. No one woke up today and intentionally decided to be mean, difficult, or unreasonable - including you.
John Bruna
#91. Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?
Brit Bennett
#92. When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.
Anne Hathaway
#93. I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!
Fiona Apple
#94. I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.
Jim Steinman
#95. What do you have in this car?" he asked.
"What do you mean, like weapons?"
"That would be a good start."
"Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain."
"A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now ...
Richard Castle
#96. Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.
Nancy Werlin
#97. Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Horace
#98. I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.
Halle Berry
#99. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.
Brandon Boyd
#100. You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.
Frederick Lenz
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