Malice

Famous quotes containing the word malice:

    Insects do not sting out of malice but because they also want to live: likewise our critics—they want our blood, not our pain.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions, and that neither the malice of his pretended friends nor the sufferings of his real ones can ever again rend and torment his honest heart.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)