Malice Quotes

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. (Winston Churchill)
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
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. View quote
Mike Tyson
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. View quote
Edmund Burke
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect. View quote
Paul
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do. View quote
John Quincy Adams
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. View quote
Dorothy Day
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools. View quote
Peter Medawar
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)
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice. View quote
John Scalzi
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue. View quote
Thomas Keneally
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed. View quote
David Hume
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth. View quote
Edgar Degas
In people's eyes I read Pages of malice and sin. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. View quote
Lysander Spooner
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self. View quote
Eric Hoffer
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. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Around the child bend all the three Sweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity. Around the man bend other faces; Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces. View quote
Walter Savage Landor