Spiteful Quotes

• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Silence

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• Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

  Pope Francis

  Vindictive, Malicious, Wretched

  "New pope's role during Argentina's military era disputed" by Jonathan Watts and Uki Goni, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Writing, Sneezing, Feels

  Letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith,?25 Nov. 1913, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 246

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• People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

  Jill Scott

  Jealous, Blessing, Thinking

  "'The Real Thing,' According to Jill Scott". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 25, 2007.

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• It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

  Plautus

  Envy, Wells, Unfortunate

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• No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Son, Parenting

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Hero, Men, People

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.60, Modern Library

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• I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

  Andrew Eldritch

  People, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Stupid, Selfish, Mean

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Children, Heart

  "The Brothers Karamazov".

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• It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Home, Widows, Cleanliness

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• He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.

  Ron Atkinson

  Player, England

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.

  Marquis de Sade

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.127, Oxford Paperbacks

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• We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.

  Andrew Keen

  People, Example, Stories

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Blow, Roots, Flying

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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• The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

  Melanie Chisholm

  Looks, Care, Way

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• I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Men, Names, Facts

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• Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

  David Boreanaz

  Believe, Character, Quality

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 23, 2013.

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• Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

  David Lehman

  Mean, Artist, Criticism

  David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set me against her from the outset, but you over-reached yourself today, my girl! How dared you write in such terms to me! How could you have been so crassly stupid as to suppose that Sophy could ever need your countenance to set her right in the eyes of the world, or that I would believe one word of slander against her?

  Georgette Heyer

  Girl, Stupid, Believe

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “The Grand Sophy”, p.324, Random House

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