Malice Quotes

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

Truth, Ignorance, End

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, God, Nation

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Kindness, Looks

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Explained, Ascribe, Adequately

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
Mike Tyson

Heart, Fight, Game

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Logic, Insolence

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese

Envy, Tangible, Shape

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

Down, Ourselves, Pleasure

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day

Give, Ourselves, Second

Malice is always authentic and sincere.
Mason Cooley

Sincere, Authentic

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer

Men, Power, Evil

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan P. Smith

Love, Friendly, Touch

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Bryant H. McGill

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
David O. McKay

Humanity, Night, Cannot

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Philip Massinger

Give, Accusation, False

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
James Otis

Made, Soul, Conscience

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Jean Racine

Heart, Cannot, Others

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith

Power, Past, Evil

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
Francis Quarles

Anger, May, Night

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
Henry A. Wallace

Trust, Great, Men

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.
Charles Barkley

I have been the victim of heartless malice.
Taylor Caldwell

Victim, Heartless

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
Spider Robinson

Stupidity, Attribute, Reasonably

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

Reply, Quietness, Tone

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
Anthony Kiedis

Dad, Father, Feeling

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
Ayelet Waldman

Here, Makes, Lives

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Mary Astell

Women, Men, Wisdom

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Love, Enemy, Cannot

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.
Robert Wyatt

Sorry, Done, Song

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
Thomas Browne

End, Evil, Hatred

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