Spiteful Quotes
45 quotes by 36 authors
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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
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People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling…
— Ann Winterton
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I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human…
— Buck Brannaman
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For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.…
— Hilaire Belloc
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it…
— William Hazlitt
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I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
— Abraham Lincoln
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Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison…
— Vivian Gornick
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The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was…
— Melanie Chisholm
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They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.
— Jeremy Clarkson
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You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping,…
— Anthony Trollope
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Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re…
— Dalai Lama
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
— Seneca the Younger
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Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the…
— David Lehman
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Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
— Pope Francis
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I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard…
— Andrew Eldritch
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It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my…
— Hulk Hogan
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
— Karl Pilkington
Who Wrote These Spiteful Quotes
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