Malice

Famous quotes containing the word malice:

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

“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 (1902–1983)

“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)