Quotes About Resentment

Hatred can be pushed aside, but it will always whisper in your ear.

Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.

revenge is like sipping poison and waiting for the other person to die.

In Abigail's experience, women certainly loved their mothers, but there was always some kind of thing that lived between them. Envy? History? Hate? This thing, whatever it was, made girls gravitate toward their fathers. For his part, Hoyt Bentley had relished spoiling his only child. Beatrice, Abigail's mother, had resented the lost attention. Beautiful women did not like competition, even if it was from their own daughters.

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

If (Mike) Hargrove was his own man, I would have been picked (for the 1998 All-Star team). He is another person who doesn't appreciate what I did for him.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.

I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother.

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

We're just a bunch of angry kinds with no money.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening.