Malice Quote by Susanna Clarke

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Shelley

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion…

— Mary Shelley

“He was far from handsome certainly; and was drest in a snuff-coloured suit, of an uncouth make at the best, which, being shrunk with…

— Charles Dickens

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not…

— William Bolitho

“Now, Mesnilgrand saw himself come to full maturity without the great military career that he had hoped for, his sword rusting in its scabbard,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“He had good, open features and a confident air; his blue eyes were wide and watchful, but something about them seemed to hint that…

— Sarah Brazytis

“As he left the room, Lord Henry's heavy eyelids drooped, and he began to think. Certainly few people had ever interested him so much…

— Oscar Wilde

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty…

— Plato

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

— William Makepeace Thackeray