Best 74 quotes in «malice quotes» category

...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger; it destroys at the speed of light!

The more perfect a thing the more it feels good and evil.

The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.

The following extracts will give some idea of the interest of his letters to Phillipps, full of news of the sale rooms and the world of scholarship, spiced with that touch of malice which makes for good reading.

Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul”?

Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it!

The hoodlum-occultist is “sociopathic” enough to, see through the conventional charade, the social mythology of his species. “They’re all sheep,” he thinks. “Marks. Suckers. Waiting to be fleeced.” He has enough contact with some more-or-less genuine occult tradition to know a few of the gimmicks by which “social consciousness,” normally conditioned consciousness, can be suspended. He is thus able to utilize mental brutality in place of the simple physical brutality of the ordinary hooligan. He is quite powerless against those who realize that he is actually a stupid liar. He is stupid because spending your life terrorizing and exploiting your inferiors is a dumb and boring existence for anyone with more than five billion brain cells. Can you imagine Beethoven ignoring the heavenly choirs his right lobe could hear just to pound on the wall and annoy the neighbors? Gödel pushing aside his sublime mathematics to go out and cheat at cards? Van Gogh deserting his easel to scrawl nasty caricatures in the men’s toilet? Mental evil is always the stupidest evil because the mind itself is not a weapon but a potential paradise. Every kind of malice is a stupidity, but occult malice is stupidest of all. To the extent that the mindwarper is not 100 percent charlatan through-and-through (and most of them are), to the extent that he has picked up some real occult lore somewhere, his use of it for malicious purposes is like using Shakespeare’s sonnets for toilet tissue or picking up a Picasso miniature to drive nails. Everybody who has advanced beyond the barbarian stage of evolution can see how pre-human such acts are, except the person doing them. Genuine occult initiation confers “the philosopher’s stone,” “the gold of the wise” and “the elixir of life,” all of which are metaphors for the capacity to greet life with the bravery and love and gusto that it deserves. By throwing this away to indulge in spite, malice and the small pleasure of bullying the credulous, the mindwarper proves himself a fool and a dolt. And the psychic terrorist, besides being a jerk, is always a liar and a fraud. Healing is easier (and more fun) than cursing, to begin with, and cursing usually backfires or misfires. The mindwarper doesn’t want you to know that. He wants you to think he’s omnipotent.

There are people on whom even clean linen looks indecent.

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.

This night is going well. "Hello there." I speak too soon. Dunstan enters, his two cronies behind him. Everyone standing around goes quiet. I flinch, but not for me; he's gazing at Ivy like a lion at a piece of meat. Ivy just keeps grinning. "And may I say you are the prettiest girl I've seen all night," Dunstan says, not noticing the fact Ivy's already taken. Ivy stares down at her feet, a pale blush the color of pink roses brushed across her cheeks. "You don't mean that," she whispers, not knowing she's accidentally flirting. "I really do," Dunstan continues in his oily, supposedly charming voice, and I roll my eyes. I want to pull Ivy away, but if I do, Dunstan will notice me. And without Melanie breathing down his neck, who knows what he'll try to pull? "So what's your name, beautiful?" Ivy blush deepens and i feel my nails dig into my skin. I'm the one whose supposed to tell her she's pretty, not this jerk. "My name is Ivy," Ivy replies. "Ivy. I like it. It suits you." I feel an arm on my shoulder and turning around, I see Aidan holding me back. Unconsciously, I've stepped forward, ready to challenge him. "So what is your name?" Ivy asks, still shyly peering down at her shoeless feet. Acting all surprised he got asked this, Dunstan runs a hand through his hair. "My name is Dunstan." Ivy's flush instantly vanishes, the corners of her mouth turns down, and her eyebrows knit together. "Dunstan? This is your name?" Quiet as she's being, I know there's anger there. I'd hate to be the recipient of this tone. But Dunstan the egotistical baboon butt isn't aware of the change. "Yep, that's me." "What is your last name?" I feel someone shaking. Aidan's still hanging on to me, and he's nervous, too. Dunstan still doesn't detect her malice. "Why, my last name's Lebelle. Dunstan Lebelle." He chuckles. "Perhaps you've heard of me?" "Oh yes," Ivy hisses, suddenly radiating ferocious fury. "I've heard much about the boy who nearly got Rylan Forester killed." Even with blaring music in the next room, you can hear a pin drop throughout the kitchen as everyone goes quiet, having lost all ability to talk due to flapping jaws. Someone whistles. "Excuse me?" Dunstan sounds like he can't believe what he's hearing. "You heard me." Ivy glares, knowing she has him caught. "You pushed Rylan into the swamp where the alligator attacked him. Sure, you can blame the alligator, but when you really think about, if you had not pushed him in, Rylan wouldn't have nearly died. Who, by the way," Ivy steps back, clasping my free hand in hers, "happens to be my friend and my date." Everyone bursts into titters—no one has ever spoken to Dustan Lebelle like that—as Dunstan stares at me wide-eyed, finally taking in my existence. But before he can do anything, Ivy pulls my hand. "We're leaving," she declares, giving Dunstan one last stink eye. And with her nose in the air and me following, Ivy boldly walks right out the back door.

When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.

When you repay evil with evil, you become evil.

with cunning colubrine and malice viperine and sleights serpentine

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain.

Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

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

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

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

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

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

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

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.