Malice Quotes - Page 12

• Meekness is the mask of malice.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Evil, Wickedness, Mask

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Courage, Kindness, Used

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1275, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

  John of Kronstadt

  Forgiveness, Christian, Wise

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• Malicious men may die, but malice never.

  Moliere

  Men, May, Malicious

  "Tartuffe". Play by Moliere, 1664.

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• Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads

  John of Kronstadt

  Kindness, Pride, Men

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• We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

  Iris Murdoch

  Judging, World, Fantasy

  Iris Murdoch (2002). “Nuns and Soldiers”, p.490, Penguin

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• He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.

  K.J. Parker

  Girl, Pain, Children

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• The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Reality, Air

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.253

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• With malice towards none; with charity for all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anger, Charity

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wickedness, World, Neglect

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2011). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (少年維特的煩惱)”, p.13, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

  Edmund Spenser

  Purple, Vow, Breaths

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.193

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• My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eagles, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Karl Klein (2001). “Timon of Athens”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.

  Eric Hoffer

  Laughter, Animal, Quality

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• I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.

  William Shakespeare

  Doctors, Forgiving, Physicians

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1842). “The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.117

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• I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Thinking, Population, Should

  "The miscellaneous writings of Joseph Story ..., Vol. 3". Book by Joseph Story, C. C. Little and J. Brown, p. 211, 1852.

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• Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

  Jamais Cascio

  Greed, May, Resilient

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• And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Should Have, Warning, Crystals

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Intelligence, Doe

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• Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

  John Dryden

  May, Littles, Mysterious

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 1

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• Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Writing, Law

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• As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Water, Liquor, Brandy

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.34

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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

  Reading, Passion, Envy

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Pain, Struggle, Ignorance

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• Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...

  L. J. Smith

  Hurt, Stars, Taken

  L J Smith (2010). “Nightfall”, p.100, Hachette UK

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