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The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.
— Rachel Hartman
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan
How vain is that poor creature man;
How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
To grate about that thing himself. — Charles Churchill
How vain is that poor creature man;
How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
To grate about that thing himself. — Charles Churchill
I did not steal your paltry goods!
— Mark Twain
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
— Sam Waterston
Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
— Glen Duncan
It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.
— David Gilmour
Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.
— Rebecca Rasmussen
The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
— Honore De Balzac
It grieved him to think of that paltry, guarded, nut-like thing that was his artistic reputation.
— Carol Shields
The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Use your God given time wisely, don't waste it in paltry things.
— Euginia Herlihy
Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.
— Peter Kreeft
I said: 'Thou thing of patches, rings,
Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm! — William Blake
Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm! — William Blake
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
— John Updike
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
— Honore De Balzac
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
— D.H. Lawrence
I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a paltry manner (Charles Darwin)
— Abram Kardiner
If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be damned for something paltry.
— Gary Jennings
[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.
— Rick Moody