Spiteful Quotes

45 Spiteful quotes by 36 unique authors

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
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
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence
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
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
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
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
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her — Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
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
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
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful. — Seneca the Younger
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
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful. — Pope Francis
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
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
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. — Karl Pilkington
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's… — Jill Scott
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm… — D. H. Lawrence
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… — Hilaire Belloc
Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful… — Iris Murdoch

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