Quotes About Resentment

The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being trivialised into soap opera. We were made to feel bad because we were not perfect like our television counterparts. We were resentful that our patients did not get better as quickly as they did on telly - or at all.

Maybe I'll have Julio ink a picture of you right on my ass, so I can always remember what a piece of shit you are.

a land where living is so hard that men want a God so they can hate him.

They heard each other only by accident, in brief pauses for breath, each of them howling their resentment and pain across the room like flaming spears that burned into dust before touching their target.

When Ed found out I was seein' Kea again, everyfing turned to shit between us. We couldn' talk wivvout tellin' each other 'ow much of a fuckin' bastard we fort the ovver one was…

Maybe (she was deliberately inflaming her own resentment now, and she knew it)

Why d'you think they feel the need to tell Londoners they're just as good? Isn't that a given?" "Just London, isn't it?" said Strike, as they crossed the road. "Pisses everyone off." "I love London." "Me too. But I can see why it pisses everyone off.

Strike had felt a variety of emotions which included guilt, gratitude, confusion, fear, rage, resentment and loneliness, but he couldn't remember feeling lucky. "Lucky" would have been the bomb not detonating. "Lucky" would have meant still having both his legs. "Lucky" was what people who couldn't bear to contemplate horrors needed to hear maimed and terrorized survivors call themselves.

Madam, hatred has become your handmaiden.

That brought a scowl from Wolfe. He hates nothing more than cases involving what he terms "rancorous domestic relations.

A hallmark of petty tyrants—including many Rule Nazis—is that their power over a narrow domain is coupled with low prestige; they simmer and sulk about the lack of respect they get. This mix of power and low social status creates a deadly brew—it provokes them to take out their frustration and resentment on others.

Today, large numbers of citizens throughout the West are angry that the good life is being stolen from them. They are not quite sure whom to be angry at—immigrants, corporations, the government, politically correct liberals, the rich, the poor?

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.

psychological research clearly shows that people who feel underappreciated tend to resent criticism and ignore the advice they're given.

There was a long pause while she hated everyone impartially: Tor for behaving like a farmer's son whose pet chicken has just been insulted; her father, for being so immovably kingly; and Perlith for being Perlith.

Even with battleproofed beliefs and the distinguished thinking of a world-class mindset, you won't win if your heart is full of anger, sadness, disappointment, resentment and fear.

Orson Welles] was a man who made the greatest film ever made and was never forgiven for it.

Corbyn was not elected by the parliamentary party but by people who have the luxury of sounding off without the responsibility of answering for it. Corbyn represents the idiocy of direct democracy, and the culture of resentment that takes advantage of it.

greed can corrupt a state and that a public official who betrays his trust "ought to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind.

Revenge, greed, resentment, envy, and patriotism made for an inflammatory mix.

Our country is full of hatred and bitterness and talk."34

Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!