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Quotes About Malice

All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it.
~ Louise Penny
Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice and benevolence, but that everything does follow rules—and that grasping those rules should be the goal of science.
~ John Brockman
Let the rage and malice of men be never so great, they can do no more, nor go any further, than God permits them; but when they have done their worst, We know all things shall work together for good to them that love God.
~ John Bunyan
She came right up to me and put her snow-white hand on my arm. You poor boy, she murmured, you poor boy. I'm not a boy, and I'm not poor, and I wished the hell she would get away. She has a clever face, but I felt in it, that night, the force of a great sadness and great malice. I see a rope around your neck, she said sadly.
~ John Cheever
Done to death by slanderous tongue
~ William Shakespeare
There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
~ Zinedine Zidane
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
~ Jesse Ball
Get him in leg irons and transport him to the hospital," Grier told him curtly. "I need a doctor," Clark raged. "I'm shot. My hand's bleeding!" Grier stared at him. "If you make a move I don't like, you'll need a mortician," he said with pure malice, and abruptly spun the Colt with a professional skill that made Clark back up a step.
~ Diana Palmer
The more I see of witchcraft, the more it seems just an easy way to be nasty.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Death did not frighten her. In those years she had tended the dying, witnessed their demise, and laid out the dead. Death by sickness. Death in childbirth. Death by accident. Death by malice, once or twice. Death as the welcome visitor to great age.
~ Diane Setterfield
They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
~ Donna Tartt
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
~ Unknown
For some people,being mean to others is the point of their lives.
~ Jacqueline Rayner
Even before the tragedy, Lindbergh had come to hate the mass-circulation newspapers, viewing them as "a personification of malice, which deliberately urged on the crazy mob." That conviction was only strengthened when two news photographers broke into the morgue where his son's body lay, opened the casket, and took pictures of Charlie's remains.
~ Unknown
Even before the tragedy, Lindbergh had come to hate the mass-circulation newspapers, viewing them as "a personification of malice, which deliberately urged on the crazy mob.
~ Unknown
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
~ Lysander Spooner
It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.
~ John Fowles
He's evil in a can.
~ John Jackson Miller
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear 40 Was with its stored thunder labouring up.
~ John Keats
[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.
~ Unknown
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Envy is an evil dart aimed by someone's jealous heart.
~ Unknown