#malice

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#friendship #malice #friendship

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

Malicious men may die, but malice never. ↗

— Molière

#mankind #men

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#malice #stupidity #earth

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#ascribe #explained #incompetence #malice #never

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

I have been the victim of heartless malice. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#heartless #i #malice #victim

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

#charity #common #common sense #democracy #economic

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