Malignity Quotes

25 quotes by 18 authors

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly,… — George Stillman Hillard
As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles. — Samuel Johnson
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes,… — Henry Fielding
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting. — John Dos Passos
Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the… — J C Ryle
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing… — Tacitus
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it. — Seneca the Younger
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails… — Samuel Johnson
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate… — William Godwin
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained. — Chanakya
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. — Samuel Johnson
I ago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced… — Anatole France
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.… — Sylvia Plath
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell
The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness.… — Fulton J. Sheen

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