Quotes and Sayings about Malice
"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Men, Women, Wisdom, Acting, Folly, Malice, Wit)
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Incompetence, Malice)
"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: End, Evil, Hatred, Malice)
"I have been the victim of heartless malice."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Malice)
"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."
- Truman Capote
(Related: Malice)
"The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin."
- Ralph Chaplin
(Related: Men, Work, Malice, Reason, Ruin)
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Truth, End, Ignorance, Malice, May)
"Malice is always authentic and sincere."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Malice)
"As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Injustice, Judgment, Malice)
"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
(Related: Men, Power, Idea, Evil, Malice, Opinion, Remarkable)
"There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: People, Malice, Pleasure)
"Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Arguments, Logic, Malice)
"Malice is only another name for mediocrity."
- Patrick Kavanagh
(Related: Malice, Mediocrity, Name)
"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Related: Love, Enemy, Enjoyment, Malice)
"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
(Related: Work, God, Charity, Firmness, Malice, Nation, Right, Wounds)
"I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in."
- Charles Manson
(Related: Time, Lie, Malice)
"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Credit, Malice)
"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
(Related: Eyes, Malice, May, Open)
"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
(Related: Bigotry, Darkness, Hatred, Humanity, Malice, Night, Selfishness, Sun)
"There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Kindness, Malice)
"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes."
- James Otis
(Related: Soul, Conscience, Folly, Guilt, Malice, Name)
"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
(Related: Anger, Hatred, Malice, May, Night)
"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."
- Jean Racine
(Related: Heart, Malice)
"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
- Charley Reese
(Related: Envy, Malice)
"Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity."
- Spider Robinson
(Related: Malice, Stupidity)
"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."
- George Savile
(Related: Malice)
"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
- Charles Simmons
(Related: Fire, Malice)
"Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express."
- George A. Smith
(Related: Power, Habit, Conscience, Deeds, Enemies, Evil, Malice, Memories, Past, Pride, Selfishness)
"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Love, Amusement, Malice)
"In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Malice, Pen, Satan)
"I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Heart, Fight, Malice, Man)
"If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Men, Trust, Adventure, Charity, Common sense, Democracy, Malice, Reality)
"I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song."
- Robert Wyatt
(Related: Malice, Song)