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)

“A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“Thrice happy book! thou wilt have one page, at least, within thy covers, which MALICE will not blacken, and which IGNORANCE cannot misrepresent.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)