Quotes about Resentment
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself
- George Bernard Shaw
there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.
- George Eliot
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
- Francis de Sales
Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.
- Samuel Beckett
Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
- John Ortberg
If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.
- John Piper
Envy is the offspring of pride,
- Ellen White
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.
- Mark Twain
Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology
- Arthur Schopenhauer
it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.
- Ayn Rand
Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?
- Benjamin Disraeli