The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which… — Ann Winterton Copy Share Image
I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“We can disagree with one another without being raging, judgmental, spiteful, self-righteous lunatics. Can’t we?” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word. — Ron Atkinson Copy Share Image
the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living.… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving. — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
