Malice Quote by Anonymous

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent…

— Charles William Eliot

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even…

— Anonymous

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

— Aldous Huxley

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

— Edward Coke

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

— Muhammad

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

— William Cowper

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

— Publilius Syrus

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

— Jane Austen