Quotes About Ill-nature

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

In a word, they are the same folly, the same childishness, the same ill–breeding, and the same ill–nature, which raise all the clamours and uproars both in life and on the stage. The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.