Spiteful Quotes - Page 2

• From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode"

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• The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

  Richard Dawkins

  Memories, Real, People

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• They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Taken, Should Have, Way

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Jealous, Views

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Sick, Sick Man

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• Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

  Mason Cooley

  Vanity, Hungry, Feds

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• When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Women, Solitude, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.177

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• If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Forgiveness, Fall, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.489, First Avenue Editions

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• When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  Zicheng Hong

  Ignorant, Taoism, Weakness

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• Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

  Mary McGrory

  Inanimate Objects, Proud, Attractive

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• Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

  Albert Camus

  Doe, Ashes, Venture

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.

  Melvin Konner

  Strong, Children, Fighting

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• Open your heart. Don't be spiteful.

  Pete Doherty

  Heart, Open Your Heart

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.

  Bill Moyers

  Writing, Fate, Doors

  Source: progressive.org

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• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  Karl Pilkington

  Would Be, Jellyfish, Trifles

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

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• Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jealousy, Men, May

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

  Seneca the Younger

  Misery, Kind, Arise

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• I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Hate, Humility, Men

  "The Letters of Anthony Trollope", (p. 691), 1983.

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• Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.

  Vivian Gornick

  Love, Girl, Miscarriage

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• For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mean, Done, Sake

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• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

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• People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.

  Ann Winterton

  Meaningful, Jobs, Hunting

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• Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.

  Iris Murdoch

  Mean, Self, Feet

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• I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

  Dani Shapiro

  Mother, Childhood, Trying

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