Malice Quotes

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

There's daggers in men's smiles.

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.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

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

Whence proceeds this weight we layOn what detracting people say?Their utmost malice cannot makeYour head, or tooth, or finger ache;Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,Or put one feature out of place.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.