Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice… — Lysander Spooner 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
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
“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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I love being prayed for! I know that sounds strange, and I've had people ask me if I'm offended when Liberty students… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its… — Eric Hoffer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in… — Martin Luther 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
“But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
