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Quotes About Spite

Love, forgiveness, and compassion are always the route to take, not judgment, retribution, and spite. Something else to consider when thinking of a challenging family member is whether perhaps he or she is holding a mirror up to you. Do you share the characteristics of someone who angers you?
~ James Van Praagh
Like attracts like" is the Law of Attraction. If we live mindful lives centered on love and nonjudgment, we'll attract the same type of people into our sphere. If we give that energy out, those who also give out that energy will be drawn to us. If we're bitter, envious, and spiteful, we will not only draw those same people to us, but we'll repel the ones who can probably assist us the most in our souls' growth. Who would you rather have in your life?
~ James Van Praagh
At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, and for all they most crave and never can attain. Let us pity them, my chieftain, for even though we die at their hands we can afford them pity, since we are greater than they and they know it
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
And William laughed with his special blend of mischief, compounded of humor, spite, and sadness in a ratio even he wasn't sure of but that he mixed by feel.
~ Edmund White
Your silence there is better than your spite, For who can rail so long as they can write?
~ Alexander Pope
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
~ Richard Dawkins
If she wanted to go back to Boston so damn bad, she should just do it. He said this knowing full well she wouldn't, for it was the particular curse of the Whiting men that their wives remained loyal to them out of spite. By
~ Richard Russo
I have never hated the individual Jew -- yourself I have always cherished as a friend, but you will know that I speak in all honesty when I say I have loved you, not because of your race but in spite of it.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves.
~ William Peter Blatty
No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves … for ourselves.
~ William Peter Blatty
Spite of cormorant devouring Time.
~ William Shakespeare
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
~ Michael Crichton
The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
~ Plautus
You weak-willed, jealous sack of vampire spit.
~ Kim Harrison
The revolt seemed to Nadia more a waste than ever, an unfocused spasm of rage, the ultimate cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
There, now, a good hiss never hurt anyone.
~ Kresley Cole
People don't want their lives improved. They want the lives of people they hate made worse.
~ Kyle Mills
Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever
~ Dalai Lama
She sought Sheffield Grayson out, Avery. The man blamed our family for his nephew's death. He slept with her out of spite. God knows why Skye did it, but I was the result.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Orion:Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it. Foaly: Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark? Orion: Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.
~ Eoin Colfer
Bad mind, bad heart.
~ Anacharsis Cloots
Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
~ Lucius Accius
in response to a jealous comment made by Amber] PJ's mouth snarls open. If you aren't going to play nice, my thorny little bush, I think you should return to the dirty playground that you crawled from.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz