Grudge Quotes

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. (Aesop)
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. View quote
Robert Browning
The motives that explained human murder bunched, historically, into three groups: material gain; personal grudge and sociopathy. View quote
Adam Roberts
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love have overcome. View quote
Maria Weston Chapman
There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way. View quote
O. Henry
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days. (Vanessa Hudgens)
O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty. View quote
Rabia Basri
And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever. View quote
Gregory Maguire
It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse. View quote
Ike Barinholtz
I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success. View quote
Todd McFarlane
A woman you've endured such a gnawing of desire for, you can't help bearing a little grudge against, when the ache is gone. View quote
John Updike
He bore no grudge against those he had wronged. View quote
Simone Signoret
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others. View quote
Inayat Khan
The story has spread that in testifying against Mr. Hiss I am working out some old grudge, or motives or revenge or hatred. I do not hate Mr. Hiss. We were close friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity, but in a moment of history in which this Nation now stands, so help me God, I could not do otherwise. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one. View quote
Viktor Frankl
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land? (W. E. B. Du Bois)
I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle. View quote
Tom Wolfe
It is very hard to write this way, beginning things backward, and the author hopes the reader will realize this and not grudge this little word of explanation. I know I would be very glad to read anything the reader ever wrote, and I hope the reader will make the same sort of allowances. If any of the readers would care to send me anything they ever wrote, for criticism or advice, I am always at the Café du Dôme any afternoon, talking about Art with Harold Stearns and Sinclair Lewis, and the reader can bring his stuff along with him, or he can send it to me care of my bank, if I have a bank. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder. View quote
Cassandra Clare