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Quotes About Spite

May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
~ Jean Cocteau
There's people that have all these other qualities, but if you've got a spiteful streak, that will take you to realms people have no concept of.
~ William Regal
because Diamond was acting like she knew all about his secret romance tonight. Whether she really does know or not, he'll find it easy to imagine that she might kill his dear moon-eyed truly beloved out of vengeance or spite." "Or to make sure she's out of his life forever." Snowflake nodded.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Are you saying, perhaps, that I am moved by spite, revenge or, even worse, that I am seeking some sort of perverse thrill in cruelty? It seems to me that you don't understand what our work here is about.
~ Unknown
He did not relish the topic; he sensed in Jane Rochford's tone the peculiar cruelty of women. They fight with the poor weapons God has bestowed – spite, guile, skill in deceit – and it is likely that in conversations between themselves they trespass in places where a man would never trust his footing.
~ Hilary Mantel
Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye
~ Holly Black
Don't be drinking the Haterade.
~ Holly Black
If I didn't have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.
~ Holly Black
Bring me the crown, Cardan,' Balekin says. Prince Cardan turns on his elder brother the same cool and calculated gaze with which he has regarded so many other creatures before he's torn the wings from their back, before he's cast them in to rivers or sent them from the Court entirely. 'No, brother. I do not think that I will. I think that if I did not have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.
~ Holly Black
jealousy wasn't a spice to me then. It was the whole meal and I was gagging it down.
~ Holly Black
Dr. Rhinestein did not test for malice, for spiteful indifference, or for congenital meanness. If they could, I wonder how many fish we might throw back.
~ Lionel Shriver
eBay is a fine place to unload your Prada bag when you're in a desperate situation and it's exactly what the doctor ordered when searching for a specific item, say an authentic 1965 edition of the game Mystery Date. eBay is a very, very bad place to go if you're a hypercompetitive asshole with a penchant for spite bidding.
~ Jen Lancaster
Why is the smallest thing I do for pleasure immediately illicit—while the rest of the world rolls laughing in the mud! Pig? She ought to see the charges and complaints that are filed in my office in a single morning: what people do to one another, out of greed and hatred! For dough! For power! For spite! For nothing!
~ Philip Roth
I look around me and see all the problems. I know people aren't living the gospel. I know they are too busy. The world is too loud. The sounds you hear in the hall or not the substance of love and kindness. I hear gossip, I hear spite, I hear fear. I do not hear the gospel. Except inside me, I can feel it there.
~ David Levithan
Nick Papanides," I say, spitting into the sink. "Let me tell you a little something, Mister. You can rot in Hell for all I care. You can …" I watch my saliva clinging to the rim of the basin and wonder where the bubbles come from. Is that air or are we all naturally carbonated?
~ David Sedaris
To say she was bitter fell a wee bit short, like calling sulfuric acid tangy.
~ David Sosnowski
No small amount of schadenfreude. Do you know what that means?" "Dad, it's the lifeline of gossip. Of course I know what it means.
~ Cristina García
People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.
~ Joanne Harris
Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.
~ Jodi Picoult
There was present that night at Henley's, by right of propinquity or of accident, a man full of the secret spite of dullness, who interrupted from time to time and always to check or disorder thought;
~ Unknown
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
~ Plautus
you'd have understood how easily the blade of spite turns in one's hands, and cuts one's own palms.
~ Rachel Kadish
Whether she had acted from immature spite or from a true passion, I could never know. In either case, she had failed. I had survived. And Jamie was mine.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Best would have been if I'd died, I guess, but there wasn't much chance of that, not right off anyway... Next best was to make me want to die, but I had enough spite in me to want to live, usually.
~ Unknown