Quotes About Resentment

My dear man,' Philippa said. 'It seems to me that you have no spirit left but the spirit of resentment.

You had good reason to hate me. I always understood that. I don't know why you should think differently now, but take care. Don't build up another false image. I may be the picturesque sufferer now, but when I have the whip-hold, I shall behave quite as crudely, or worse. I have no pretty faults. Only, sometimes, a purpose.

I had a sense, I believe, of indebtedness. But someone trussed it in black felt and kicked it to death, as the Turks do.

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

She resented the way in which he walked in and out of her mind as if it was his own flat.

How do you do?" "How do you do?" echoed Mr. Ingleby. They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting. Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.

People often grudge others when they cannot enjoy themselves.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something.

Just for a moment I hated Lymstock and its narrow boundaries, and its gossiping whispering women.

Unease, fear, guilt, and lack of confidence. Resentment is the other side of that. It is your shadow. It is a false and fake gold. Resentment is a trap of the heart into which everyone falls.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

Maybe Horst really believed all that "might makes right" malarkey. Maybe he didn't like an Irish boy showing up the German "master race." Or maybe he was just a bleeding maggot.

Nobody liked Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher. For one thing, he had too many titles.

I don't feel anything but rage for the person who gave me a secret I didn't want.

It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. The

When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

I'm a very vengeful person - if someone didn't wanna get on board with me and I'm doing it well I'm gonna rub it in their face.

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

I bitterly resent all that wasted time. And what I resent most of all is that the ones I did get never, never looked like the Greek statues." "The Greek-statue types may have been too busy going out with other boys to notice you.

If every one of us will work, strenuously and continuously, until each has purged his heart of every trace of resentment against every person, who has, he thinks, injured him, we shall then find, perhaps to our surprise, that Peace is reigning over the whole world.2

Battle-itch, hate, contempt and greed. The ingredients were waiting to be utilized, and a strategy presented itself to John Lawrence. Recall, with due care, the Sikh love of war. Stir and use the dislikes: Sikh resentment of Muslim rule, Muslim resentment of Sikh domination, Punjabi disdain of the Purbiah. Spread word of the chance to plunder Delhi under British protection.