#malice

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

#answer #bear #blasphemy #continued #could

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#malice #misdirection #wicked #wicked-witch-of-the-west #life

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. ↗

— Patrick Süskind

#life #malice #spite #life

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#malice #stupidity #earth

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

#as far as #concerned #dignified #far #fight

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

#attuned #ears #enhances #evil #fellow

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

#charity #finish #firmness #gives #god

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

— Philip Massinger

#argued #credit #false #give #itself

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

#best #best way #dealt #eyes #honorable