But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It seems that simply being willing to express our views clearly, persuasively and without malice, can be a powerful invitation to others… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
“The cat-and-mouse scenery is not only about animals, but about our human condition. How do we live, how we are played, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“whereas malice was the beginning and end of Laurence Strange’s character, the new manservant was a more natural blend of light and… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“TUCKE DES OBJEKTS, DIE: Literally "the malice of things," the sneaking dread that machines are biding their time until they can turn… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her, and then, with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
“He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
