Impulse Quote by Janet Malcolm

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

— Aldous Huxley

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have…

— Blaise Pascal

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

— Michel de Montaigne

Evil on itself shall back recoil.

— John Milton

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

— William Shakespeare

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

— Elbert Hubbard

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

— Joseph Joubert

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

— Ramana Maharshi

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

— William Davenant