Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

Don't get even, get mad.

If you could kick the posterior of the person who has hurt you the most, ...you wouldn't be able to sit down for six weeks.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

I still got the nasty in me.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

I feel like getting even, and if I live long enough I will.

A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.