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Quotes About Resentment

Though she would never quite articulate it this way, resentment began to sheathe concern. ANGER IS FEAR'S BODYGUARD, a poster in the hospital hard read, but Mrs. Richardson had never noticed it; she was too busy thinking, It wasn't supposed to happen this way.
~ Celeste Ng
He remembers again, and he is always angrier than before.
~ Celeste Ng
Comportamentul ideal se naÅŸte din deplina indiferen??.Poate c? tocmai de aceea iubim întodeauna cu încrâncenare pe acela care ne întoarce spatele
~ Cesare Pavese
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,They damn those authors whom they never read.
~ Charles Churchill
The dragon spits fire, what extinguishes its tears. When we live in rancor, we are born to be old. (Le dragon crache du feu, - Ce qui éteint ses larmes. - Quand on vit de rancune, - On naît pour être vieux.)
~ Charles de Leusse
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
~ Charles Dickens
These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment. As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness.
~ Charles Dickens
You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.
~ Charles Dickens
she hated and detested Nicholas with all the narrowness of mind and littleness of purpose worthy a descendant of the house of Squeers.
~ Charles Dickens
As if the estrangement between them had come of any culpability of hers. As if Mr. Lorry had not known it for a fact, years ago, in the quiet corner in Soho, that this precious brother had spent her money and left her! He was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more grudging condescension and patronage than he could have shown if their relative merits and positions had been reversed (which is invariably the case, all the world over),
~ Charles Dickens
Jealousy is vengeful — not to its target but to ourselves.
~ Terri Guillemets
To be jealous is to rub salt into your own wounds.
~ Terri Guillemets
resentfully.
~ Grace Lin
Ba sighed and took out another candle for the lantern. The light from the lamp kept away the forest animals but it could do nothing for Ma's fury. Her resentment seemed to darken with the fading moon.
~ Grace Lin
Even in collapse, Byzantines maintained such resentment against Rome that they actually came to feel it was better to be defeated by the Muslim Turks than by the Christian Latins.
~ Graham E. Fuller
No matter what you do for them, eventually, they will hate you.?
~ Green Goblin
Many Americans resent evangelicals because they perceive us as thinking we have a right to rule them. That perception is not always unreasonable in light of the way many evangelical leaders spoke and acted throughout the twentieth century. This is one of the most important reasons Christianity has gradually lost influence over the past century. While the believers in the Christian
~ Greg Forster
Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
No es casual que dos valores constantes del discurso populista sean, de un lado, la estimulación del resentimiento social, del otro, la promesa de reparación o revancha.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
Victimismo y resentimiento son caras de la misma moneda. Una de esas monedas ha sido nuestro nacionalismo.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them.
~ H. Beam Piper
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
~ H. G. Wells
Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was butt hurt.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)