“ It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
- 866
“ Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! ”
- Henry Rink- Copy
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“ Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.4K
“ If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ”
- Charley Reese- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature — the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
- 2.5K
“ What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 2K
“ Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained as stupidity. ”
- Hanlan’s Razor- Copy
- 1.2K
“ He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
- 1.8K
“ ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. ”
- Nick Diamos- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. ”
- Thomas Traherne- Copy
- 201
“ A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 491
“ After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
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“ Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ”
- Paul Goodman- Copy
- 237
“ Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 3.1K
“ In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. ”
- Leo C. Rosten- Copy
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“ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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