Quotes About Malice

That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never.     ORGON

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

There are those who believe all secrets to be guilty. If the truth is innocent, they declare, why can it not be revealed? The very existence of a secret indicates malice and wrongdoing. All should be open, all exposed.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

They are malicious, gods, these Tuath, to make such things to fight over.

Old, beautiful words – 'From envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitableness – Good Lord deliver us.' How many of the people who make a glib response have really turned away from the evil in their thoughts before it breaks into word or open deed?

thinking must invariably and without exception generate and sustain fear, despair, malice, loneliness, frustration, countless shades of unhappiness?

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

Pjäsen handlade, sa Konungen till mig, om att ondskan funnes i så hög grad hos dessa människor vid hovet att de liknade apor eller djävlar; de gladde sig åt andras olyckor och sörjde över deras framgångar, detta vore det som druidernas tid kallades Kannibalism, Anthropophagie. Därför befunno vi oss bland Kannibaler.

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save oneís own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own motherís son.

Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.