hidden malice Quotes

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.

She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.

Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan.

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.

I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious