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I am growing meaner by the hour. -- Jean Stafford
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. -- James M. Barrie
I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record. -- Trent Reznor
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. -- William Cowper
That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner. -- Dennis Prager
I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension. -- Daniel Tosh
Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade. -- Rob Sheffield
I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is. -- Artie Lange
When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing. -- Dominick Dunne
I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit. -- Arjun Rampal
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. -- Jane Jacobs
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. -- Robert Redford
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with. -- Andrew Young
All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.' -- Jeremy Sisto
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. -- George Eliot
The further left you go, the meaner the spirit -- Dennis Prager
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. -- Rebecca Stead
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile. -- Thomas Carlyle
I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get. -- Mae West
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence. -- John Wilmot
That's what a skinwalker is: a mean asshole with a meaner spirit squatting inside. Oberon said -- Kevin Hearne
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To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. -- Hugh Reginald Haweis
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape. -- George Santayana
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape -- George Santayana
At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner.. -- Louis Armstrong
I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive. -- Michel Gondry
You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine" - Lady Madelyne. -- Julie Garwood
So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together. -- Luis Gutierrez
Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent. -- Vincent Van Gogh
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things. -- Aristotle
My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes. -- Nicole Holofcener
He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog. -- Jim Croce
When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner. -- Rob Lowe
From out the throng and stress of lies, from out the painful noise of sighs, one voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies. -- William Morris
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives. -- Wilfrid Sheed
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. -- George Eliot
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. -- Henry David Thoreau
When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings. -- William Cowper
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy. -- George Eliot
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. -- Ambrose Bierce

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