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)

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

“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)