Janet Malcolm Quotes

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

Evil be to him who evil thinks

Hatred is the anger of the weak.

There is nothing which cannot be turned in an hostile and malignant a manner by malignant and perverted ingenuity.

Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

I am the evil seed.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.

A plague on both your houses.

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

I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'