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Quotes About Spite

The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
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 as every combat soldier knows there are as many incarnations and species of fear as the Eskimo language has words for snow. Spend any amount of time in the realms of deadly force and you will witness certain of its fraught and terrible forms.
~ Ben Fountain
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
~ Ben Fountain
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 as every combat soldier knows there are as many incarnations and species of fear as the Eskimo language has words for snow.
~ Ben Fountain
That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean.
~ Judy Blundell
One may do anything; this alone corresponds to the whole breadth life has. But one must be sure not to take it upon oneself out of op-position, out of spite toward hindering circumstances, or, with others in mind, out of some kind of ambition.
~ Judy Reeves
and a cat who apparently wished him dead
~ Julia London
But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
But spite is a wonderful thing for keeping people alive.
~ Stefan Zweig
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
~ William Shakespeare
Just to spite himself, because spiting himself, spiting others, spiting the world is the pastime and only patrimony of Landsman and his people.
~ Michael Chabon
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You wouldn't believe what spite and superstition there is in the world.
~ Boris Pasternak
You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
~ Tamora Pierce
There's always jealous people out there.
~ Wayne Bridge
Thoughts of murderous egotism and revenge, and little, vagrant thoughts repulsive in their childishness, pettiness and spite. The little thoughts were perhaps the worst. Little irrelevant vagaries that insulted the dignity of man.
~ Frank Belknap Long
That's a horrible dream! Major Sanderson cried. It's filled with pain and mutilation and death. I'm sure you had it just to spite me. You know, I'm not even sure you belong in the Army, with a disgusting dream like that.
~ Heller Joseph
How dost thou know that some entire, living, thinking thing may not be invisibly and uninterpenetratingly standing precisely where thou now standest; aye, and standing there in thy spite? In thy most solitary hours, then, dost thou not fear eavesdroppers? Hold, don't speak! And if I still feel the smart of my crushed leg, though it be now so long dissolved; then, why mayst not thou, carpenter, feel the fiery pains of hell for ever, and without a body? Hah!
~ Herman Melville
What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for order. Because the desire for order tries to transform the human world into an inorganic reign in which everything goes well, everything functions as a subject of an impersonal will. The desire for order is at the same time a desire for death, because life is a perpetual violation of order. Or, inversely, the desire for order is a virtuous pretext by which man's hatred for man justifies its crimes.
~ Milan Kundera
All these represent humanity in general, totally enraged, demented, vengeful, spiteful, cheap denizens of our culture, vultures, jackals, sharks, suckerfish, stingrays, lice.
~ Bukowski Charles
My new tune, of spite and indifference, drowned out the truth: that I'd mistaken the burn of jealousy for love. The heart wants what it is most denied, a hard lesson.
~ Kate Manning
Where Evangeline came to below his shoulder, Gail was a head taller. An easier distance from which to spit in his eye, he thought spitefully.
~ Kate Noble
Tu haras que ese nombre sea vil, sucio y despreciable y toda la gente al decirlo escupira en el! - Mixtli a Ce-Malinali
~ Gary Jennings
Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.
~ Horace McCoy