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Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful. -- Pope Francis
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. -- C. S. Lewis
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. -- Karl Pilkington
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it. -- Andrew Eldritch
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. -- Richard Dawkins
The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look? -- Melanie Chisholm
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. -- Heinrich Himmler
It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it. -- Hulk Hogan
It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. -- D. H. Lawrence
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son. -- Abraham Verghese
He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word. -- Ron Atkinson
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man. -- Anton Chekhov
For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did. -- Hilaire Belloc
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. -- William Hazlitt
Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings. -- Buck Brannaman
Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower... -- Iris Murdoch
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope. -- Sebastian Horsley
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't see how matters could become worse," he muttered. "I am already besotted with a needle-tongued, conceited, provoking ape leader of a lady." Her head jerked up. "Besotted? You're nothing like it. Vengeful is more like it. Spiteful. -- Loretta Chase
The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality. -- J. K. Rowling
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. -- D. H. Lawrence
I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot. -- Monica Dolan
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings. -- Jill Scott
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her. -- David Lehman
I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough. -- Michael Leunig
If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives. -- Chris Crutcher
The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful. -- Heather Brooke
Open your heart. Don't be spiteful. -- Pete Doherty
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful. -- Mason Cooley
There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful. -- Seneca the Younger
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do. -- Plautus
Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things. -- Pawan Mishra
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her -- Abraham Lincoln
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving. -- Mary McGrory
Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be. -- David Boreanaz
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away. -- Jeremy Clarkson
Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age. -- Gudjon Bergmann
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture. -- Albert Camus
But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire. -- Coco J. Ginger
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done. -- D. H. Lawrence
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable. -- Michael Crichton
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks. -- Stendhal
Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it. -- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little girls can draw conclusions And profit from their lost illusions. -- Phyllis McGinley

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