Malicious Quotes

• Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

  Janet Jackson

  Thinking, Long, Competition

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• Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

  Phillips Brooks

  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Character, Gossip, Rumor

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• God is subtle but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Math

  Remark made during a week at Princeton beginning 9 May 1921, later carved above the fireplace of the Common Room of Fine Hall (the Mathematical Institute), Princeton University - in R. W. Clark Einstein (1973) ch. 14

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Character, Men

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.75

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• The malicious have a dark happiness.

  Victor Hugo

  Bullying, Dark

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.158, Modern Library

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• You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

  Richard Rohr

  Mean, Dark, Reality

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

  Steven Erikson

  Children, Brain, Subtlety

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• Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

  Nancy Hale

  Gossip, Creative, Creation

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• There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Heart, Pleasure

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.248, Univ of California Press

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• Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Risk, Poverty

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• I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
  Told to Valentine Bargmann.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Valentine, Second Thoughts

  Quoted in Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America (1985).

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• Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Pain, Kindness, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 363), 1895.

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• Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

  Pope Francis

  Spiteful, Vindictive, 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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• Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

  Albert Einstein

  Lord, Subtle

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• Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.

  Gautama Buddha

  People, Sage, Found

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• In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

  William Saroyan

  People, Events, Ridiculous

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Years, Names

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.128

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• Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

  Pride, Miracle, Mind

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast—La Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

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• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

  Phillips Brooks

  Forgiveness, Faults, Bears

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• Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

  George Farquhar

  Women, Lying, Proud

  Joseph Addison, Mr. John Dryden, Richard Steele, William Shakespeare, Colley Cibber (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. V.”, p.21

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• Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Subtle, Mathematical

  Remark made at Princeton University, c.9 May 1921, in R. W. Clark 'Einstein' (1973) ch. 14

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• If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

  Denis Norden

  Laughter, Shows, Audience

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• Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

  Alvin Adams

  Appreciate, Rumor, Matter

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• There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

  Brad Stine

  Truth, Differences, Knowing

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