Resentment is at work when one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses if only the hated one might also come to harm. Many of those who attack capitalism know very well that their situation under any other economic system will be less favorable.
I don't care who gets in my way... I'm just gonna come right though and riot.
Finchy is foul. And there is no way I would be mates with him.
When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.
The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.
One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.