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Quotes About Resentment

Racism has served always in the U.S as a pressure release for the psychopathic destructiveness evinced by a people made fearful and insecure by a way of life they never understood and resented from the day of their birth
~ George Jackson
They hate you because you act like you're better than they are
~ George R.R. Martin
Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.
~ George R.R. Martin
They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I've watched you fight. It's not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they'd be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?
~ George R.R. Martin
Cersei always resented being excluded from power on account of her sex.
~ George R.R. Martin
If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us.
~ George Walker Bush
Guilt is the fertilizer that feeds resentment.
~ Georgia Bockoven
I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.
~ Geraldine Brooks
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
~ Edmund Burke
I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.
~ Tim Conway
Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.
~ Vittorio De Sica
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.
~ Rita Rudner
We all envy other people's luck.
~ Latin proverb
Envy is a kind of praise.
~ John Gay
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
~ Henry Adams
More in sorrow than in anger.
~ William Shakespeare
Superiority is always detested.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.
~ Lillian Hellman
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
~ Thomas Fuller
I knew a man who succeeded in finding an evil word for everything he didn't have and everything he didn't understand.
~ Ivo Andri?
JEALOUSY, AND RIDICULE.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy.
~ J. Robert Lennon
A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion.
~ J.D. Robb