Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

- Lady Gregory

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

- Unknown

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

- Taylor Caldwell

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

- Truman Capote

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

- Spider Robinson

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

- Patrick Kavanagh

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

- Mason Cooley

Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.

- Louis MacNeice

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

- Charles Barkley

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

- Jack Henry Abbott

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.

- Jerome Charyn

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

- John Scalzi

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

- Iyanla Vanzant

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

- George Savile

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

- Charley Reese

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

- Charles Simmons