quotes about Malice
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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
-- Charles SimmonsSource : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.233
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Malice remains its animating impulse.
-- Janet MalcolmSource : "Iphigenia in Forest Hills". www.newyorker.com. May 3, 2010.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
-- Jean Racine -
Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
-- John Milton -
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Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
-- Josh Billings -
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
-- Lady GregorySource : Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.54, Wildside Press LLC
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One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.
-- Lizabeth Scott -
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
-- Patrick KavanaghSource : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
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He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
-- Patrick Süskind -
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.
-- Paul the Apostle -
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
-- Taylor Caldwell -
The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
-- Winston Churchill -
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It seems that simply being willing to express our views clearly, persuasively and without malice, can be a powerful invitation to others who may be lurking out there, in agreement with us but unsure whether their position is speakable or practical.
-- Mary C. Gentile