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
There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or… — Lord Chesterfield 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
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place. — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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
I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't… — Mike Tyson 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
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
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
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
