81 Quotes About Spite

He told me my whole life happened because I got things other people weren't using, and since he's been gone I've lived my whole life on that same principle. He told me a lot of things, and the most important of those things is never, ever to use the word wish.

So I can curse my pain all I want. I can try to leave it at the door. But maybe I should say grace, gnaw on its bones and thank it for nourishment instead. Maybe for now it's what's keeping me alive. And for now, I can accept living out of spite.

Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them right.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

A dingily bilious sun was seeping through a tent of black clouds. Passersby, spitefully elbowing elbows, were rushing along the pavement. People thronging the doorways of shops tried to pummel their way through and stuck fast, their faces flushed with spite and fury, their teeth bared.

The moment you are doing something to SPITE someone, just know you are the one with something to lose, which is HONOUR and PRINCIPLE.