Quotes with malice

  • Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
  • There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
  • 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.

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  • Thomas Traherne A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Francis Quarles Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Shirley Lord Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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  • Paul Goodman Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Augustus William Hare Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bethany Kennedy Scanlon Jealousy's vicious bulldog trampled through my soul. I was furious, no, furious is not a strong enough word; I was enraged with envy, hate, and malice toward a strange brunette kissing my boyfriend. What is that tramp doing with my man?
    Lori Lentrall, in Secrets of an Undercover Agent
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  • Patrick Kavanagh Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Blaise Pascal Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Aaron Hill Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Iris Murdoch Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • William Shakespeare Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bryant H. McGill 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
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Winston Churchill The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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