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Quotes About Spite

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.
~ Nipsey Russell
That hater-juice is best served cold.
~ Michael Sorrentino
He cringed when I said those words. No wonder he was reluctant to probe my past. No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
~ Abraham Verghese
Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard words than hard deeds, and are more excited by insult than by actual hurt. What we do to our enemies in war is done of necessity, but the evil we say of them seems to spring from an excess of spite.
~ Plutarch
There is no great dark man. Even under an exterior as rugged as a mountain range, there lurks the same wounded, wincing psyche that cripples the rest of us. Where we are led to think we will find strength, we shall discover force; where we hope for ruthlessness, we shall unearth spite; and when we think we are clinging desperately to a rock, it is falling upon us.
~ Quentin Crisp
Long you must suffer, knowing not what, until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you. Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
When we comprehend how few wars have ever been fought for the sake of justice or the people; how personal spite, the ambition of military professionals, and the protection of capitalistic ventures are the real moving powers...then the mythology of war will no longer bring us to our knees.
~ Rauschenbusch Walter 1861-1918
Our common fate fastens upon the women with a peculiar cruelty. It does not punish like a master, but inflicts lingering torment, as if to gratify a secret, unappeasable spite. One would think that, appointed to rule on earth, it seeks to revenge itself upon the beings that come nearest to rising above the trammels of earthly caution; for it is only women who manage to put at times into their love an element just palpable enough to give one a fright — an extra-terrestrial touch.
~ Joseph Conrad
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
As for forgiveness, Don Orsati is unfamiliar with the word.
~ Daniel Silva
We'll all be glad to see you die. No one's going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I'll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe we all will." It
~ Richard Bachman
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
~ Martial
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
~ William Shakespeare
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
~ Cyril Connolly
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
~ Samuel Johnson
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
~ William Hazlitt
Funerals weren't just about the dead. They were about the dead leaving this world to reside with God, someone Mother wasn't seeing eye to eye with at the moment, if she ever had, and I couldn't shake the concern that in the middle of the service she would spring from her pew and find some way to spite him.
~ William Kent Krueger
Funerals weren't just about the dead. They were about the dead leaving this world to reside with God, someone Mother wasn't seeing eye to eye with at the moment, if she ever had, and I couldn't shake the concern that in the middle of the service she would spring from her pew and find some way to spite him.
~ William Kent Krueger
I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.
~ David Liss
You had to stand in line to hate him.
~ Hedda Hopper
I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open
~ Jim Norton
I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message.
~ George W. Bush
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
~ J. K. Rowling