People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between error and evil, there is a difference between mistake and malice.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” — Robert J. Hanlon Copy Share Image
The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means… — John Selden 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
The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“In short, their malice is a veil to hinder them from observing the light of God; their obstinacy renders them harder than… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler 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
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell? Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
