Malice Quote by Douglas William Jerrold Download Open image “Malice blunts the point of wit.” — Douglas William Jerrold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Malice Wit
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system that empathy… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.” — Niccolò Ammaniti Copy Share Image
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed… — David Shapiro Copy Share Image
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience. — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image