Malice

Famous quotes containing the word malice:

“There’s no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature—
The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.”
—Paul Goodman (1911–1972)

“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)