I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
[He] has the temper of a hedgehog, the adhesiveness of a barnacle, the vanity of a peacock, the vindictiveness of a Corsican, and the duplicity of the devil.
Referring to Indiana congressman and abolitionist, George Washington Julian:
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.
I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.
If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
Jealous, O’Shea?" "Actually… I am.
The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.
I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
I never said I'm unhappy about going to the ACC. I'm unhappy the Big East broke up. That's a completely different thing than saying I'm unhappy about going to the ACC.
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words compelle intrare, compel them to come in, have been so abused by wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and His compulsion is our liberation.
It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.
I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
Bottom line: People in our business are always going to look to find reasons to see the negative in somebody and to become resentful.
Marianne Williamson has written that there are really only two primary emotions in the universe, love and fear. So anytime you're feeling anxious, insecure, worried, angry or resentful, you've left love and entered fear.
Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.
A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.