Covert Aggression Quotes

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

Violence of the state is sublimated—it takes a very dull form.

When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious, profane, scatological, flat-brained, grade-school offensiveness.

I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia, and it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or, I would call it, unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them, that sort of thing.

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.