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Quotes About Spite

Know this, and let it somewhat raise your spite, Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.
~ John Webster
a hatred I was going to feel anyway for men whose evil came not from some grand design, but cost-benefit analysis and spite.
~ Ellen Datlow
Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
~ Elton John
The talking restless world shall see, Spite of the world we'll happy be; But none shall know How much we're so, Save only Love, and we.
~ barbauld anna letitia iii
A womans tears add a spice to her malice.
~ Bartholomew of San Concordio
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.
~ Allen West
You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.
~ Sarra Manning
In 2013, a 59-year-old man named Alan Markovitz was upset at his ex-wife for cheating on him, bought a house next to hers and installed a giant $7,000 statue of a hand giving the finger aimed at her house.
~ Scott Matthews
Now she became spiteful. More spiteful and evil than she thought herself capable. The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words. She summoned them from someplace she only now recognized and hurled them at Ilsa Hermann.
~ Markus Zusak
At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago!
~ Igor Eliseev
I wondered whether it was chance or the malign workings of the YouTube algorithm. Because you liked happy cat videos, you might also want to smite this man with furious vengeance.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Fear is the mother of all emotion. Before love, hate, spite, grief, rage, and all the rest, there was fear, and fear gave birth to them all, and ask every combat soldier knows there are as many incarnations and species of fear as the Eskimo language has words for snow.
~ Ben Fountain
I am growing meaner by the hour.
~ Jean Stafford
Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument. Jealousy can raise the dead with a single, spiteful taunt, or hate a perfect stranger for nothing more than the sound of his name.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.
~ Gregory David Roberts
No, she wasn't going to go to Martin's, curse him, but she wasn't going to run back to her room either, if just to spite Mr. Nobley. The man deserved to be spited. Or spitted. Or both.
~ Shannon Hale
So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and bigotry, too mean and petty to be called tragedy, but tragic for all that.
~ Mary Stewart
Lonesome! Nothing lonesomer than getting shackled to a bully-man in his house of spite.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
How is it possible to feel nothing but unmitigated spite for so many different kinds of people?
~ Eugene Thacker
Amma misses her daughter now she's away at university Not the spiteful snake that slithers out of her tongue to hurt her mother, because in Yazz's world young people are the only ones with feelings
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
~ Morgan Brittany
This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.
~ Sholem Aleichem
There's no coward like a hater.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Spite has focus, a keenness that sympathy lacks.
~ Siri Hustvedt