Spite
Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
To be angry at; to hate.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
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Spite Quotations
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
William Morris
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
Spite Translations
spite in Dutch is trots
spite in French is rancune
spite in Italian is nonostante, rancore
spite in Spanish is rencor, animosidad
spite in Swedish is ondska, agg
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