malice quotes

From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness, Good Lord, deliver us.

-Book of Common Prayer
Litany.

His temper, naturally morose, has become licentiously peevish.Crossed in his Cabinet, he insults the House of Lords and plagues the most eminent of his colleagues with the crabbed malice of a maundering witch.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Of Lord  Aberdeen, whose disagreements with his Whig^Peelite coalition over the Crimean War eventually forced his resignation.

The worst your malice can, Is but to say the greatest of mankind Has been my slave. The next, but far above him In my esteem, is he whom law calls yours, But whom his love made mine.

-John Dryden
  Cleopatra boasts to Octavia of her conquest of Caesar and Antony.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

-John Dryden
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.3, l.1^2.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

- George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax
c.1687  Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Malice and Envy'.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

- Abraham Lincoln
  Second inaugural address, 4 Mar, a month before the end of the Civil War.

In a room of the palace Black Mrs Behemoth Gave way to wrath And the wildest malice.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
  Fa c° ade,'Black Mrs Behemoth'.