Malice Quotes - Page 5

• Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

  Pythagoras

  Envy, Good Things, Destruction

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• Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Fall, Eye, Offending

  "Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year".

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• Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Children, Pride, Men

  Walter Savage Landor (1858). “Dry Sticks, Fagoted”, p.72

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• There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, People, Littles

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Long, Arms, Lows

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• Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Dare

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.358

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• Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.

  James Sharp

  Witty, Clever, Sorry

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• Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Hate, Men

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• Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

  Aaron Hill

  Evil, Tree, Branches

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• Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

  George Lillo

  Truth, Enemy, Truth Is

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Fatal curiosity”, p.73

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• Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

  Saadi

  Men, Secret, Faults

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.156, Innovations and Information

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• We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Envy, Weight

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• Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Blunders

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.210

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• There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.

  David Hume

  Hurt, Army, Moon

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.29, Stanford University Press

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• Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Blow, Choices, Dew

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• 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

  Christ, Mankind, Saviour

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• Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

  Paul the Apostle

  Children, Perfect, Brethren

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• Whence proceeds this weight we lay
  On what detracting people say?
  Their utmost malice cannot make
  Your head, or tooth, or finger ache;
  Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,
  Or put one feature out of place.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Weight, Shapes

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.629

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• Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

  Tacitus

  Violence

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• Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sweet, Children, Compassion

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• Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

  Celia Green

  Simple, People, Secret

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1981). “Advice to clever children”

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• It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ignorance, Giving, Together

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• Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

  Alice Munro

  Sides, Patterns, Pot

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.155, Vintage

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• I love being prayed for! I know that sounds strange, and I've had people ask me if I'm offended when Liberty students pray for me, since they're (usually) praying that I'll see the light and become a born-again Christian. But there's no malice behind it. They simply believe that unsaved people are in trouble, spiritually, and they want to make sure I'm safe from damnation. In a way, given their beliefs about the afterlife, it'd be mean for them NOT to pray for my salvation.

  Kevin Roose

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

  George Bernard Shaw

  Laughter, Evil, Laughing

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