Malice, Maliciousness, Malicious Quotes

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.

He [Henry Clay] is certainly the basest, meanest scoundrel that ever disgraces the image of God—nothing too mean or low for him to condescend to.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks 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.

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

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

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

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.