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Quotes About Spiteful

What you encountered was an abomination, a military intelligence. It was designed to be insidious and spiteful and inimical to life, and it wasn't smart enough to have a conscience.
~ Alastair Reynolds
There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
~ Adam McKay
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
~ Plautus
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
~ David Lehman
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
~ William Hazlitt
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
~ David Lehman
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
~ Albert Camus
It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mean is not crazy, it is merely mean.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
SOME people are just born evil. No twisted childhood trauma, no abusive father, or alcoholic mother, just plain God-awful mean.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her.
~ Angela Carter
Sometimes Felicity is as much a mystery to me as the location of the Temple. She is spiteful and childish one minute, lively and spirited in the next; a girl kind enough to bring Ann home for Christmas and small enough to think Kartik her inferior.
~ Libba Bray
He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. I don't see how matters could become worse, he muttered. I am already besotted with a needle-tongued, conceited, provoking ape leader of a lady. Her head jerked up. Besotted? You're nothing like it. Vengeful is more like it. Spiteful.
~ Loretta Chase
Machinery was so much easier to deal with than people. There was always a precise set of reasons why a machine may not be working, and there were always completely logical solutions. People were slippery and elusive, changeable and moody. You thought you understood them and then found out that you did not. You thought they loved you, and then they suddenly turned spiteful or indifferent.
~ Louis de Bernieres
takes a lot of spunk to spin gold from heartache, Mrs. Osgood. A lot of drive. Most of us can't do it. It's a mean world, Mrs. Osgood, mean and spiteful.
~ Lynn Cullen
It was a joke, Thorn. That was all. Just a joke." "A joke, my friend? No, I don't think so. A joke is when everyone can have a good laugh together. But when you do something that's spiteful and hurtful and causes misery to someone else, that's not a joke. That's cruelty.
~ John Flanagan
Rachel ain't here. Not that she would wanna talk to you anyhows, you slimy
~ Sandra Hill
Only one lady saw any impropriety in it, and as she was notoriously spiteful, and had two rather plain daughters of marriageable age on her hands, no one paid any heed to her.
~ Georgette Heyer
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
There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Divorce: such a spiteful-sounding word – but such an appealing concept. Marriage: such a softly seductive word – but such a spiteful reality.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
~ bierce ambrose ii
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
~ Karl Pilkington