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Quotes About Spite

The speaker's role is supposed to be revered, but Pelosi is so hooked on hatred and spite, she brings all of Congress into disrepute.
~ Miranda Devine
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.
~ Jill Scott
I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.
~ Neymar
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
~ Anton Chekhov
Nicia: God send him the plague! Timoteo: Why? Nicia: So he'll get it!
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Out of spite, McCain had flipped on his earlier support of Obamacare just to cast the deciding vote that defeated Trump's effort to repeal and replace it.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
Seventh bearer of the cursed name Akiva." Here he paused, speculative. "No Misbegotten ever bore that name to manhood before you. Did you know that? Old Byon the steward, he gave it out of spite. Wanted your mother to beg him not to. Any other woman in the harem would have, but not Festival. 'Scribble whatever you like on your list, old man,' she told him. 'My son will not be tangled in your feeble fates.'
~ Laini Taylor
There was always, among them, such a stew of envy and longing. They hated the humans, but they also wanted to be them. They wanted to punish them, and they wanted to be embraced by them. To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child. And since they couldn't have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.
~ Laini Taylor
Have an enemy, be an enemy. Hate those who hate you. Hate them better. Hate them worse . Be the monster they dear the most. And whatever you can, and however you can, make them suffer .
~ Laini Taylor
Have an enemy, be an enemy. Hate those who hate you. Hate them better. Hate them worse . Be the monster they fear the most. And whenever you can, and however you can, make them suffer .
~ Laini Taylor
To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child. And since they couldn't have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.
~ Laini Taylor
I did not want to know what his status was with Jacques; yet the day came when it was revealed to me in Jacques' spiteful and triumphant eyes. And Giovanni, during this short encounter, in the middle of the boulevard as dusk fell, with people hurrying all about us, was really amazingly giddy and girlish, and very drunk—it was as though he were forcing me to taste the cup of his humiliation. And I hated him for this.
~ James Baldwin
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
But it often looks as though the interest was there. The thing petered out in spite of interest. Nearly everybody, if asked, alleges that he'd have continued attending pretty regularly if enough others had cared enough to attend regularly enough to make it worthwhile
~ Thomas C. Schelling
This distance between my dreams and my capabilities makes me so furious that I want to die–to die from spite and also from grief.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I would pay snakes to bite her.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Now he worked on a new theory: There was no higher system guiding Nickel's brutality, merely an indiscriminate spite, one that had nothing to do with people. A figment from tenth-grade science struck him: a Perpetual Misery Machine, one that operated by itself without human agency. Also, Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.
~ Colson Whitehead
The cabins radiated permanence and in turn summoned timeless feelings in those who lived and died in them: envy and spite.
~ Colson Whitehead
Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.
~ Charles Dickens
Because, if it is to spite her," Biddy pursued, "I should think — but you know best — that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think — but you know best — she was not worth gaining over.
~ Charles Dickens
Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Politics seemed to have fallen to a new wartime low of spite and pettiness.
~ James MacGregor Burns