'Tis sheer ill-nature — don't the world know best? ❋ Unknown (2009)
You raise up before me a mystery that prevents our marriage, and I believe you; but they could not believe you without doubts arising as to the wrong and ill-nature of the mystery. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Without the ties of parental or maternal affection, were you to be deprived of Lady Seyntaubyne, you would find the world abounding in selfishness, envy and ill-nature. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Probably contributing to her ill-nature is the genes from her father; himself quite a grumpy intellect Quaid. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Death will soon put him in possession of a fair estate, if he hath it not already; old Lady Girnington — an excellent person, excepting that her inveterate ill-nature rendered her intolerable to the whole world — is probably dead by this time. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To represent me as viewing it with ill-nature, animosity, or partisanship, is merely to do a very foolish thing, which is always a very easy one; and which I have disregarded for eight years, and could disregard for eighty more. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I never knew any in which there was so little of ill-nature. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And ugliness and discord and inharmonious motion are nearly allied to ill-words and ill-nature, as grace and harmony are the twin sisters of goodness and virtue and bear their likeness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
You never, never, had malice or ill-nature in what I caWedj/uur petulance. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I have a vast deal of roguery, but no ill-nature, in my heart. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Sir Hargrave Pollexfen in a harlequin dress was at the ball: he soon discovered our lovely cousin, and notwithstanding his former ill-nature on being rejected by her, addressed her with the politeness of a man accustomed to public places. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I told him the reflection both of the poet and applier was much too general, and made with more ill-nature than good manners. ❋ Unknown (2006)
If you had half as much sense as you have ill-nature, you would ❋ Unknown (2006)
To outwit, and impel, as I please, two such girls as these, who think they know every thing; and, by taking advantage of the pride and ill-nature of the old ones of both families, to play them off likewise at the very time they think they are doing me spiteful displeasure; what charming revenge! — ❋ Unknown (2006)
See you not in her passiveness, what boisterous spirits can obtain from gentler, merely by teasing and ill-nature? ❋ Unknown (2006)
I must tell you what was said the other day to a fine lady whom you know, who is very good-natured in truth, but whose common countenance implies ill-nature, even to brutality. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In her character there was more of energy, and also much more of harsh judgment, and of consequent ill-nature, than in that of her brother. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And we are more apt to be offended with a joke than a plain and scurrilous abuse; for we see the latter often slip from a man unwittingly in passion, but consider the former as a thing voluntary, proceeding from malice and ill-nature; and therefore we are generally more offended at a sharp jeerer than a whistling snarler. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I can neither laugh nor drink; have contracted a hesitating, disagreeable manner of speaking, and a visage that looks ill-nature itself; in short, I have thought myself into a settled melancholy, and an utter disgust of all that life brings with it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
