“ I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women. ”
- Shirley Bassey- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor. ”
- Robert Chambers- Copy
- 472
“ A bore is simply a nonentity who resents his humble lot in life, and seeks satisfaction for his wounded ego by forcing himself on his betters. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I resent articles that have described my childhood as tragic. It wasn't a bed of roses and it wasn't a hellhole. You just get on with it. ”
- Kristin Scott Thomas- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ”
- Arthur Chapman- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now. ”
- Louise Brown- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
- 940
“ A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ”
- G. C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. ”
- Barbara De Angelis- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. ”
- William E. Gladstone- Copy
- 2K
“ Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. ”
- Michael Korda- Copy
- 733
“ People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear - unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' - in a word, free men. ”
- Gerald W. Johnston- Copy
- 212
“ Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it… ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
- 1.4K
“ When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. ”
- William Barclay- Copy
- 3.6K
“ In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday… ”
- William Lyon Phelps- Copy
- 831
“ We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us? ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
- 2.1K
“ With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. ”
- Art Hill- Copy
- 3.1K
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