Resent Quotes - Page 12

• I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Children, Book, Dark

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

  Mary Renault

  Truth, Men, Half

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

  Simon Heffer

  Climate, Causes, Given

  1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.

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• When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.

  John Galsworthy

  Principles, Married, Precaution

  1906 The Man of Property, pt.1, ch.1.

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• The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Class, Names, Knowing

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.199

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• To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

  William Hazlitt

  Evil, Wickedness, Littles

  "Collected Works Of William Hazlitt".

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• I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

  Anne Lamott

  Wisdom, Self, Wish

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• Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

  M. L. Stedman

  Resent You, Forgiving, Treasure

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

  Peter Drucker

  Stupid, Boss, Risk

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

  Preston Brooks

  Respect, Self, Should Have

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• These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks... but Fala does resent them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Dog, Son, Wife

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• Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

  John Diefenbaker

  Strong, Essence, Freedom Of Speech

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Resent You, Deeds

  Orson Scott Card (2012). “Alvin Journeyman: Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

  Jane Addams

  Children, Attitude, Soon Enough

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

  David Hume

  Drama, Passion, Magic

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.258

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• Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.

  Scott Hahn

  Artist, Museums, Giving

  Scott Hahn (2016). “Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism”, p.94, Ignatius Press

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• God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

  William Matthews

  Ideas, Choices, Coercion

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• I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.

  Michelle Shocked

  Differences, Knowing, Fit

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• Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

  Ernest Hemingway

  Radio, Welcome, Certain

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.

  Tim Conway

  Cutting, Hair, Looks

  FaceBook post by Tim Conway from Mar 11, 2016

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• Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Weather, United States, Degrees

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• I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent the people there, so I certainly wouldn't imitate it.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Federalism, Clinton

  "The Keyes-Obama Debates: Africans and African Americans". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, quod.lib.umich.edu. August 15, 2004.

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• The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Pride, Simple, People

  "Women's Wit and Wisdom : A Book of Quotations" edited by Susan L. Rattiner, (p. 37), 2000.

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• A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Revenge, Virtue, Injury

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.513

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