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Malice is only another name for mediocrity. -- Patrick Kavanagh
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. -- Charles Simmons
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. -- Philip Massinger
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. -- Winston Churchill
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
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. -- Truman Capote
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. -- Charley Reese
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. -- Ralph Chaplin
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
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
In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself. -- Joanna Southcott
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
Malice remains its animating impulse. -- Janet Malcolm
Malice blunts the point of wit. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Malice is always authentic and sincere. -- Mason Cooley
Malice is poisoned by her own venom. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Malice often takes the garb of truth. -- William Hazlitt
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. -- Seneca the Elder
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom. -- St. Jerome
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison. -- Socrates
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. -- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself. -- Michel de Montaigne
Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? -- Thomas Jefferson
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. -- Winston Churchill
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces. -- Walter Savage Landor
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing. -- Pythagoras
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind. -- John Tillotson
Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic. -- Chris Wooding
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen. -- Philip Sidney
I have been the victim of heartless malice. -- Taylor Caldwell
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. -- Thomas Browne
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. -- Jean Racine
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place. -- Lady Gregory
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice. -- John Scalzi
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
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
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. -- Lysander Spooner
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
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
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
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
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
I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in. -- Charles Manson
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action. -- Pope Francis
Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that. -- Jim Rohn
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Meekness is the mask of malice. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Malicious men may die, but malice never. -- Moliere
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
With malice towards none; with charity for all.... -- Abraham Lincoln
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. -- Ouida
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. -- Roger Penrose
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice. -- Lizabeth Scott
You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury. -- Philip K. Dick
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let not your rage or malice destroy a life. -- Leonardo da Vinci
In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin. -- Mikhail Lermontov
Life is a warfare against the malice of others. -- Baltasar Gracian
Bear no malice for the ones who leave you. -- Bert V. Royal
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice. -- Moliere
Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. -- J. G. Holland
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. -- Jack Henry Abbott
Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice. -- George Lillo
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. -- Ambrose Bierce
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. -- Jean de la Bruyere
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. -- Patrick SÃ¼skind
Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best. -- William Shakespeare
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge. -- John Milton
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence. -- Tacitus
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. -- Winston Churchill
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder. -- Josh Billings
If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh. -- Will Rogers
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice. -- William Hazlitt
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil. -- Aaron Hill
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits. -- Benjamin Haydon
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ. -- John Dryden
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. -- William Shakespeare
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. -- Honore de Balzac
Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare! -- William Julius Mickle
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. -- Aeschylus
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. -- William Shakespeare
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. -- Aldous Huxley
For malice will with joy the lie receive, Report, and what it wishes true believe. -- Thomas Yalden
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I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage. -- Roger Williams
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. -- Antoine Rivarol
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. -- Alain de Botton
Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole. -- Ray Davies
There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail. -- Swami Vivekananda
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. -- William Graham Sumner
Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice. -- Charles Barkley
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. -- William Davenant
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. -- Paul Goodman
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. -- Rumi
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. -- Antoine Rivarol
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect. -- Paul the Apostle
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud. -- Martial
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus -- William Shakespeare
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. -- Harold S. Kushner
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience. -- Zia Haider Rahman

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