Quotes About Malice

It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

[T]ruth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.

The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

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Count Olaf, like any good businessman, has committed a wide variety of crimes.

How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander.

Nessuna condotta, neppure la più corretta, può sfuggire alla malevolenza della calunnia.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

For this reason I believe that only humans are capable of true evil—only we can sit down and, in cold blood, work out ways to torture people, to inflict pain. Carefully plan horrific cruelty.

Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.

I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

Malevolence, like love, needs few words.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

In putting them on, he forgot about them and began, without the slightest malice toward them, to subject them to various forms of abuse.

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander.

our megatechnic culture, based as it is on the strange supposition that subjective malice has no reality and that evils do not exist, except in the sense of reparable mechanical defects, has proved itself incompetent to take on such responsibilities.

While most humans are wired to be reasonably decent, a few are wired to be utter shits -- and they do tend to tip the balance.

May the devil himself splatter you with dung.