Guilt Tripping Quotes

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

I had one little brother and I would use him as a scapegoat to get us games. Obviously, I would get the more girly toys like dolls and Barbies, yadda, yadda, yadda. But I really wanted video games or action figures or something so I would send him to ask mom, 'Hey, I want this video game' when it was really we wanted this video game.

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.

I am the ultimate Jewish mother.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it's just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.