“If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.”
Greek proverb
“Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.”
Jan Morris
“A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?”
William Blake
“It was so small and senseless. A petty argument lost him his life.”
Catherine Young
“Like small cities, cruise ships experience crime ? from petty to profoundly tragic.”
Christopher Shays
“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”
Winston Churchill
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit”
William Shakespeare