Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got… — Bob Paisley Copy Share Image
The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“You do not know how the people of this country bear malice. It is the boast of some of them that they… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Confidential matters are not dealt with over the telephone, you'd better come here in person. I cannot leave the house, Do you… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is an universal tendency amongst mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities, with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“ Such Pleasure took the Serpent to behold This Flourie Plat, the sweet recess of EVE Thus earlie, thus alone; her Heav'nly forme… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Was it malice or stupidity? Doha had found that the motivation for most confusing attributes of other people could be classified into… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
