Spiteful Quotes
45 quotes by 36 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Hilaire Belloc
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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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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't see how matters…
— Loretta Chase
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
— C.S. Lewis
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The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
— Abraham Verghese
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I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person,…
— Dani Shapiro
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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them…
— Anton Chekhov
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To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
— Anton Chekhov
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If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious…
— C.S. Lewis
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Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful…
— Michael Crichton
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The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set…
— Georgette Heyer
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If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct…
— Richard Dawkins
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
— D. H. Lawrence
Who Wrote These Spiteful Quotes
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