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Mean Quotes

Nasty…I thought she was the meanest, the most horrible, the most disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

– Donald Trump

Being very unpresidential about Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump has already started his attacks, calling Kamala, quote, nasty, whining about how she is, quote, mean to his appointees. It’s not a surprise because whining is what Donald Trump does best, better than any president in American history.

– Joe Biden

Don’t tell the children, we’ve actually kept it going through the holidays. I feel very mean.

– Kate Middleton

On continuing to home school her children during Easter holidays.

It’s a funny thing about girls. Every time you mention some guy that’s strictly a bastard – very mean, or conceited and all – and when you mention it to the girl, she’ll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn’t keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Chapter 18. Holden is talking about his mysterious friend Jane Gallagher, who dated a show-off.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

– Harry S Truman

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

– Harold MacMillan

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

– George Bernard Shaw

Fanny’s First Play, Act 3.

I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.

– Henry Ian Cusick

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

– Hu Shih

I am often considered almost not a part of the profession of Establishment economists. I am even referred to as a sociologist. And by that, economists usually do not mean anything flattering.

– Gunnar Myrdal

Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.

– Herbert A. Simon

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

– Harry Chapin

I know that we’re being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don’t mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

– Gordon Lightfoot

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

– Harvey Korman

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

– Hesiod

Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.

– Gail Godwin

I’m not mean, just aggressive.

– Harvey Martin

I mean this record does not sound like somebody’s maiden voyage.

– George Duke

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn’t mean that I would like to return to the old one.

– Helen Suzman

Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.

– Hedy Lamarr

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

– Graham Chapman

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

– Henry Adams

I’ve never been able to understand what they mean by ‘Pinteresque,’. I’m sure it’s indefinable.

– Harold Pinter

The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

– Jason Statham

Being polite does not mean being mummified.

– Judith Martin

I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.

– J. J. Watt

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

– John Updike

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

– James Stockdale

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

– Joni Mitchell

To be knocked out doesn’t mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

– Joyce Carol Oates

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