Top 349 Malice Quotes & Sayings

If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

Malice remains its animating impulse.

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will be the merciful thing.

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.

Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

I never tell jokes out of malice.

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

There shouldn't be any true malice towards your opponent.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.

Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.

Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

High malice is almost inherent in the profession of historian.

One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.