Spite Quotes
844 Spite quotes by 654 unique authors
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Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the…
— Erich Fromm
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But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it…
— Elizabeth Berg
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I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are.” Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all…
— Tina St. John
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Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even…
— Jennifer Worth
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My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
— Thomas Hardy
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I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but…
— Alice Munro
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Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong,…
— Cheryl Strayed
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I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character…
— David Benioff
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I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at…
— Margaret Mitchell
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There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know…
— Barbara Pym
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God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use
— Joel Osteen
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She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.
— Lauren DeStefano
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I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies…
— Elie Wiesel
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And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more…
— Sylvia Plath
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I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people.…
— Jodi Picoult
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But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate…
— Laini Taylor
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I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with…
— Nalini Singh
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To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances…
— Brennan Manning
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And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just…
— John Green
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My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who, of all the…
— Suzanne Collins
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A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us,…
— Charles Kingsley
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He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But…
— Hilary Mantel
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Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or…
— Jodi Picoult
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