Malice Quotes

“Bear no malice for the ones who leave you.”

— Bert V. Royal Dog Sees God

Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

— George Lillo

“stupidity can be as bad as malice”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“The more perfect a thing the more it feels good and evil.”

— Dante Alighieri

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

— St. Jerome

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

— George Savile

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

— Socrates

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

— William Shakespeare

“And so you see it is love- not scorn,not malice; only love- that makes me harm her, in the end.”

— Sarah Waters

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

— Ambrose Bierce

“There’s much more stupidity than there is malice in the world...”

— William Gaddis

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

— Harold S. Kushner

Yall know who owned this so they end my career. But still I put my tag on this earth Malice was here.

— Malice (Clipse

High malice is almost inherent in the profession of historian.

— David Starkey

“Don’t confuse selfishness and stupidity with malice. People seldom consider the consequences of their impulsive actions.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be…

— Herman Melville

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

“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

Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the…

— Alfred Bester

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of…

— Thomas Traherne

“He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest…

— Charles Dickens

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in…

— Martin Luther

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win…

— Ignatius of Antioch

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or…

— Lord Chesterfield

Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but…

— John of Kronstadt

Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at…

— Anonymous

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“When anger is repressed by reason of inability to do immediate harm, it retires into the heart in the form of malice…

— John Wortabet

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness…

— Anonymous

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and…

— Samuel Johnson

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the…

— J. G. Holland

It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is…

— David Benatar

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do…

— James Sharp

“The hoodlum-occultist is “sociopathic” enough to, see through the conventional charade, the social mythology of his species. “They’re all sheep,” he thinks.…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art…

— Edward Gibbon

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

“  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