Malice Quotes
217 quotes by 169 authors
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Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we…
— Leo Rosten
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One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.
— Lizabeth Scott
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is…
— William Penn
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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
— John Milton
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The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
— Iris Murdoch
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Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
— Samuel Johnson
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'
— Lionel Barrymore
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced…
— Charles M. Blow
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The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the…
— Simon R. Green
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who…
— Alfred Nobel
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In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow…
— John Quincy Adams
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One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride…
— James Keller
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred,…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of…
— Robert Browning
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