C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Spite
Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.
Dickens.
When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.
Sterne.