Malice Quotes

• If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

  Charley Reese

  Jealousy, Hate, Envy

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• Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Education, Hate, Humor

  Attributed without source in "Message Passing Server Internals" by Bill Blunden, (p. 15), 2003.

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• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Truth, Business

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• The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Eye, Winning, Way

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• Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Causes, Reason, Love Wisdom

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• The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

  Winston Churchill

  Wicked, Weakness, Virtuous

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Character, Boomerang, Turns

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• The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

  David O. McKay

  Heart, Night, Hatred

  LDS General Conference, October 1964.

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• Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

  Philip Sidney

  Confusion, Matter, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

  Lizabeth Scott

  Stupidity, Evolve

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• Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Names, Mediocrity

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Rage

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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• Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

  John Tillotson

  Hatred, Mind, Ease

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• Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

  Charles Simmons

  Fire, Mark, Pretence

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.233

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• You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Lying, Hats

  Mark Twain (2016). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.152, Tyché

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• Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

  Seneca the Elder

  Forgiveness, Anger, Half

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• The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Evil, Wickedness

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.128

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• There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Kindness, Mean, Punishment

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• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Business, Work

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

  Ouida

  Envy, Emulation, Virtue

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• Malice is always authentic and sincere.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Sincere

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• There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

  Moliere

  "Tartuffe". Book by Moliere, Act I, sc. I, 1664.

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• Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stupidity, Underestimate, Attributes

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• Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

  Moliere

  Poison, Tongue, Proof

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• Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

  Alfred Bester

  Grateful, Passion, Men

  Alfred Bester (1978). “Demolished Man”, Pocket

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