Quotes of Malevolence - somelinesforyou

“ The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed — That can make life a garden. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature — the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

- Winston Churchill

“ Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt. ”

- Rollo May

“ In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. ”

- Anne Frank

“ The venom clamours of a jealous womanPoisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity. ”

- Don Marquis

“ The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- Truman Capote

“ You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ I am satisfied there is more weakness among men than malice. ”

- H. W. Shaw

“ You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ”

- Walker Percy

“ The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ”

- John Dryden

“ From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ A man I knew who lived upon a smile,And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair. ”

- Edward Young

“ O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up! ”

- Hannah More

“ But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no more, But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, Corroding every thought, and blasting all Love's paradise. ”

- James Thomson

“ The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. ”

- Eric Hoffer
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