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 Blunts Malice Malice Blunts Point Point Wit Wit Witty
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
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image