Top 100 Meanest Quotes
#1. The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.
Will Cuppy
#2. 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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#4. Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Edwin Arnold
#5. 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.
Mary Astell
#6. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Stephen King
#7. The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not worshipped. A heaven presided over by such a god must be below the meanest hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#8. Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#9. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
Oscar Wilde
#10. Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Ovid
#11. The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
Thomas De Quincey
#12. 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.
Thomas Reid
#13. Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.
Stephen Richards
#14. The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. South
Edward Abbey
#15. When you go to a dogfight, it's always good to bring the meanest bitch.
Craig Johnson
#16. All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Samuel Richardson
#17. War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak;
But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade
For added power or gain, sordid and despicable
As meanest office of the worldly churl.
Joanna Baillie
#18. To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
Tryon Edwards
#19. John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with.
Jill Haworth
#20. I'm flattered that you need the biggest, meanest warrior on your side to best me, Uri. Let's see, how big a warrior do I need as a second to beat you and Sacriel? Hmm . . . I'll take . . . the Daughter of Man. She should even out the odds.
Susan Ee
#21. Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#22. One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'
Geoffrey Canada
#23. Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
Billy Wilder
#24. 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.
William Ralph Inge
#25. I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#26. Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
Alexander Pope
#27. By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!
William Shirley
#29. I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.
Lord Byron
#30. No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.
George MacDonald
#31. 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.
Socrates
#32. 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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#33. A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
Lord Byron
#35. Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
Dorothy Parker
#36. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
Agnes Repplier
#37. Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and its fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth
#38. I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still, I was alive.
J.K. Rowling
#39. 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.
Robert Browning
#40. I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.
Walter Johnson
#43. Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#44. Don't get me wrong, marriage is good. Good for other people."
"Oh, honey, I can't wait till it's your turn. You are going to be so fun to watch when you fall in love."
"That may just be the meanest thing you have ever said to me.
Laurie Roma
#46. There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
Oliver Goldsmith
#47. I know I am
that simplest bliss
The millions of my brothers miss.
I know the fortune to be born,
Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
Bayard Taylor
#48. The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#49. Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.
Mary McCarthy
#50. [The answer of Solon to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']
That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.
Solon
#51. What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
Harry S. Truman
#53. I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.
Brion James
#54. Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
Abraham Cowley
#55. To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. Lots of people leave Pennsylvania limping and bruised. The state also has what are reputed to be the meanest rattlesnakes anywhere along the trail,
Bill Bryson
#57. There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.
Samuel Johnson
#58. To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.
Samuel Johnson
#59. Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. She had one of those twisty minds that find no difficulty in sublimating their meanest little impulses to almost dizzily ethical heights.
Thorne Smith
#61. With our young, awakened eyes, we saw that the classical conception of the fatherland held by our teachers resolved itself here into a renunciation of personality such as one would not ask of the meanest servants.
Erich Maria Remarque
#62. O Godhead of glory and anguish!
O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears!
Thy sons on the universe languish
In iron bands strong as the spheres;
With virtue Thy likeness we cover,
With priestcraft we mock at Thy power,
And the meanest on earth is a lover,
As vile as a flower.
Aleister Crowley
#63. As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race ... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.
Rudyard Kipling
#64. I'm going to be really scared," he muttered. "I don't like badgers. Stormpaw is the meanest cat in ThunderClan!
Erin Hunter
#65. Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. I am tickled and twitched all over. Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels.
Charles Dickens
#66. Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson
#67. There is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself
Henry Fielding
#68. All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.
Nicki Minaj
#69. Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis
Christopher Paolini
#70. So little knows
Any but God alone to value right
The good before him but perverts best things
To worst abuse or to their meanest use.
John Milton
#71. Deveels are some of the meanest characters you'd ever not want to tangle with. They're some of the most feared and respected characters in the dimensions."
"Are they warriors? Mercenaries?"
Aahz shook his head.
"Worse!" he answered. "They're merchants.
Robert Asprin
#72. We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
Hugh Blair
#73. The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Henry Ward Beecher
#74. The meanest interests of all His saints are all borne upon the broad bosom of the Son of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#75. ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
Ambrose Bierce
#76. The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#77. The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.
Gilbert Parker
#78. A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
Livy
#80. Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.
Charles Dickens
#82. [A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
David Hume
#83. After all, he'd been in the United States Army Special Forces, fuck you very much. You might take the man out of the SF, you couldn't take the SF out of the man. He'd been up against some of the world's meanest and toughest. So, goddamn straight he could work his way around one young woman.
Laura Kaye
#84. The meanest girl who dances and dresses becomes something higher when her children look up into her face and ask her questions. It is the only education we have and which they cannot take from us
Olive Schreiner
#85. Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.
Robert Southey
#86. The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: And behold, what he had done was good.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#87. There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into, murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard. We
Harper Lee
#88. Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
Margaret Fuller
#89. Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
Benjamin Franklin
#90. If you want to inform yourselves as to the nature of hell, don't hold your hand in a candle flame, just ponder the meanest, most desolate place in your soul.
Marilynne Robinson
#91. From the meanest creature one departs wiser, richer, more conscious of one's blessings.
Samuel Beckett
#92. Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
Thomas Carlyle
#93. Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
Arthur Balfour
#94. In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.
Jane Hamilton
#95. If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
Jane Addams
#96. A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
Edward Gibbon
#97. The basics of running this town are very simple. All you need to do is reward those with something to offer, and the way to recognize them is that they can do something you can't; it's that simple. And when you identify them, you protect them with the meanest bastards you can find.
Matt Mayr
#98. It is a deformity in some 'radicals' to imagine that, once they have found the lowest or meanest motive for an action or for a person, they have correctly identified the authentic or 'real' one. Many a purge or show trial has got merrily under way in this manner.
Christopher Hitchens
#99. In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.
Joaquin Miller