malevolent quotes

When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

-Willa Sibert Cather
  Of kindness. My Mortal Enemy.

I remember that the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been,Would he had blotted a thousand: which they thought a malevolent speech†[but] I loved themanand do honour hismemory, on thisside idolatry, as much as any.

- Ben Jonson
Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).