Quotes About Spite

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

I looked into his sandy brown eyes, at one with the hair. At the business- like outward presentation of the man who daily printed sneers, innuendo, distrust and spite and spoke without showing a trace of them. 'Off the record,' I said,'bash his face in'.

For a second or two I considered taking Clay's beer. It would be my first. But then I'd only be doing it to spite Conrad, and I wasn't going to let him control what I did.

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

My spite was sharp as broken glass

bitch n. 1 a female dog, wolf, fox, or otter. 2 INFORMAL a spiteful or unpleasant woman. BLACK SLANG a woman (used in a non-derogatory sense). 3 (a bitch) INFORMAL a difficult or unpleasant situation or thing: working the night shift is a bitch. 4 INFORMAL a complaint: my big bitch is that there's nothing new here. v. [no obj.] INFORMAL make spitefully critical comments: everybody was bitching about their colleagues. Old English bicce, of Germanic

That woman's a ghoul – the delight she takes in other people's misery.

So whenas fortune all her spite hath shown, Some blissful hours at last must needs appear; Else would afflicted wights oft-times despair . . .

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

A malicious racist is someone who directs malice, spite, or hatred toward another human being of another race because that person belongs to that other race. A patronizing racist is someone who takes personal ego credit for any superiority he may have (whether real or imagined, usually imagined) over someone who belongs to another race.

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

Bloodthirsty bitches

I don't believe in classes where students criticize each other's manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite. It's the blind leading the blind, and it can be dangerous. A teacher who tries to impose a way of writing on you can be dangerous, too.

No pleasure but meanness

We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

Bastard," she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenly he was where he had been standing all along, the coward.

I wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire

Can't you see? To taint Kiky?'s heart with spite, so that the Shikon jewel would absorb the blood of malice. Two who had trusted each other would now despise and kill one another. What purer evil could be found to taint the jewel? And the more profound the love had once been, the more powerful the resulting hatred, and the more evil the jewel. Magnificent.- Naraku

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

Curses are like knots, the more you struggle to be free, the tighter they become, whether they're made of rope or spite or desperation.

Be aware that you are always invulnerable to personal attacks inspired by envy and spite.