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Tag Name "Malice" (172)

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Malice often takes the garb of truth.
William Hazlitt
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Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Seneca the Elder
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Malice scorned, puts out itself but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Philip Massinger
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Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
St. Jerome
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
Philip Sidney
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We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.
William the Silent
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What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
Terry Brooks
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The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
Winston Churchill
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It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.
Thomas Jefferson
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My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.
Woody Allen
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Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
Walter Savage Landor
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It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.
Wilfrid Sheed
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If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
Will Rogers
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But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.
William Gilmore Simms
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Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.
Ray Davies
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
William Hazlitt
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