Spite Quotes
844 Spite quotes by 654 unique authors
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Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern…
— Matthew Kelly
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Just show him that I didn't need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
— D. H. Lawrence
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So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,…
— Ralph Ellison
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I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as a lover." He…
— Maria V. Snyder
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You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe…
— Alice Walker
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I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals,…
— Laini Taylor
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There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So…
— Charles Dickens
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And then Mircea finally let me down, only to get his hands inside the coat and push me against the wall. “I’m dirty,” I protested.…
— Karen Chance
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Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think…
— Charles Dickens
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting…
— Anne Frank
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I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help…
— Veronica Roth
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Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to…
— Margaret George
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...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our…
— Erich Fromm
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The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for…
— Peggy Orenstein
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What the—Have you been crying?" Tohrment demanded. "Are you all right? Dear God, is it the baby?" "Tohr, relax. I'm a female, I cry at…
— J R Ward
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In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him,…
— Janet Evanovich
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There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to…
— Mary E. Pearson
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
— William Faulkner
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In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows…
— Bill Cosby
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He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
— Patrick Süskind
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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It…
— Stephen Fry
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Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.
— Taylor Swift
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you…
— Cassandra Clare
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