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Familiar Quotations

Maligning

But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.–Dante Alighieri

Maligning – "Animosity"

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!–Robert E. Lee

Maligning – "Disparage"

If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.–Edward N. Hurley

Maligning – "Enmity"

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.–Abraham Lincoln

Maligning – "Malevolent"

No one, not even the most malevolent democrat has any idea how much nullity and charlatanism there is in diplomacy.–Otto von Bismarck

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.–J. Bartlett Brebner

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.–Titus Maccius Plautus

Maligning – "Malice"

Malice is pleasure derived from another's evil which brings no advantage to oneself.–Cicero

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.–Cicero

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.–Nick Diamos

• Prefacev
• Familiar Quotations1
• Maligning1
• Maligning – "Animosity"1
• Maligning – "Disparage"1
• Maligning – "Enmity"1
• Maligning – "Malevolent"1
• Maligning – "Malice"1
• Maligning – "Malicious"2
• Maligning – "Venom"2
• Use in Literature3
• Maligning3
• Maligning – "Animosity"16
• Maligning – "Character"16
• Maligning – "Charge"17
• Maligning – "Disparage"17
• Maligning – "Enmity"17
• Maligning – "Expression"18
• Maligning – "Eyes"18
• Maligning – "Fate"19
• Maligning – "Heard"20
• Maligning – "Influence"20
• Maligning – "Little"21
• Maligning – "Malice"22
• Maligning – "Malicious"22
• Maligning – "Men"23
• Maligning – "Nature"25
• Maligning – "Old"25
• Maligning – "Power"26
• Maligning – "Spite"26
• Maligning – "Venom"26
• Maligning – "Woman"27
• Nonfiction Usage28
• Journalism Usage28
• Bibliographic Usage28
• Encyclopedic Usage29
• Lexicographic Usage31
• Index39