Malice

(158 votes)   There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(141 votes)   In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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