Top 100 Grudge Quotes
#1. A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
Fran Lebowitz
#3. Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
Auberon Waugh
#4. Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
Craig Groeschel
#5. Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.
Karl Barth
#6. Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go.
Louise Penny
#7. When we are bitter about unfulfilled dreams, harboring a grudge about not getting the life we wanted or even deserved, aren't we letting venom move through our system?
Whitney Johnson
#8. They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
Charlotte Bronte
#9. The grudge was fundamental. Perhaps he could not have given it up if he tried. Perhaps he got more satisfaction out of feeling himself abused that he would have got out of being loved.
Willa Cather
#10. Letting go is impossible when you're holding a grudge. -Faydra D. Fields
Faydra D. Fields
#11. I guess you could say I'm 'kind' to my past books in the way you might be kind to an old boyfriend you still quite like and bear no grudge against but with whom have absolutely no interest in getting back together.
Lynn Coady
#12. It's useless to hold a grudge against anyone for a time will come when all will be forgotten
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#13. A motorcycle was the worst form of transportation when you were holding an angry grudge against its driver.
Kristen Ashley
#14. You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
Steven Adler
#15. You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive!
Anamika Mishra
#16. Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
Hesiod
#17. My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
Anna Banks
#19. Do you think peace of mind can be found in holding a grudge ... or harboring resentment ... or wallowing in thoughts of what could have been? Me neither.
Steve Maraboli
#21. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.
Emily Giffin
#22. A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
Frederick Scott Oliver
#23. I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.
Robin Williams
#24. George: Why've you had a grudge against your brother for 15 years? Benny: We Lopezes are a proud people ... George: You have a birthday lunch at Denny's every month. We're not that proud!
George Lopez
#25. We shall all of us die, so why grudge a little trouble?
Leo Tolstoy
#26. I don't hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.
Leigh Bardugo
#27. The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.
Jon Stewart
#28. 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.
Todd McFarlane
#29. "Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"
Charles Dickens
#30. I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
Buddy Hackett
#31. I knew that holding a grudge only hurts the one who holds it. It only eats away at the one who has the anger and bitterness inside.
Lisa Lace
#32. Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.
Cassandra Clare
#33. Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.
Nouman Ali Khan
#34. Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
Richard Peck
#35. The negativity took some getting used to, but at the end of the day, life's too short. It's too short to get upset about what other people think . . . too short not to do what makes you happy . . . too short to not call that person back, to stay angry, to hold a grudge.
Elizabeth Meyer
#36. There must not be any single person in the world whom you should allow to rent a portion of your heart. Don't hold grudge. Forgive and move on...
Assegid Habtewold
#37. 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.
O. Henry
#38. 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
#39. Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box with a grieving family outside, or inside a wooden box under six foot of soil with family wondering where you were. The former was if they didn't hold a grudge.
Jasper Fforde
#40. I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.
Nicki Minaj
#41. Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
God takes a text, and preaches patience.
George Herbert
#42. Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.
Maureen Lipman
#44. The effect was of somebody reluctantly reading a prepared statement off a teleprompter, a statement prepared by somebody against whom she had a bitter and long-standing grudge. He considered the possibility that she might be clinically depressed.
Lev Grossman
#45. Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
Henry B. Eyring
#46. It's funny. I don't think boys even know how to hold a grudge.
Jenny Han
#47. The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
Seth Godin
#48. It's been fifteen years since I've killed a man. At least a man against whom I held a grudge.
L.J. Martin
#49. Two things I learned a long time ago, Cate: Don't hold a grudge longer than it takes to work your way through a pan of brownies all by yourself, and don't begrudge someone an apology if they deserve it.
Alyssa Goodnight
#50. Men often complain of the wickedness of women. Of how we delight in what power we have over their hearts. But they reign over everything else, so of course, they grudge us this, should we ever come to rule over this thing the size of their fist.
Alexander Chee
#51. Show your children God's love by loving them and others as Christ loves you. Be quick to forgive, don't hold a grudge, look for what's best, and speak gently into areas of their lives that need growth.
Genny Monchamp
#52. Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?
David Winnick
#53. The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts.
We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.
Shams-i Tabrizi
#54. Holding onto a grudge gives you an extra load to carry in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. The most serious Christians have always been well disposed towards me. I myself, an opponent of Christianity - de rigueur, am far from bearing a grudge against the individual for what is the fatality of millennia.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.
Joel Osteen
#57. I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.
Maya Angelou
#58. I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.
Jami Attenberg
#59. If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.
Maximus The Confessor
#60. That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.
Nigel Hamilton
#62. I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.
Thomas Chalmers
#63. Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well.15
Winston S. Churchill
#64. He who holds onto a grudge holds onto a thorn expecting it to prick the one who wronged him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that cares nothing for us.
Eric Maisel
#66. I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.
Marilynne Robinson
#67. You better smile, or we're toast," I said. "Everything about you screams social malcontent with a grudge and a trunk full of weapons.
Stacey Kade
#68. A women can hold a grudge for a long time. The longer it simmers, the longer the grudge lasts and I advise you to get this straightened out quick like fashion.
Georgia Cates
#69. The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who - in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses" - cannot hear the music of the spheres.
Albert Einstein
#70. Dashed if I didn't receive a letter from him this morning! Yes, and what's more, I had to pay sixpence for it, which I'd as lief not have done. It ain't that I grudge sixpence, but what I mean is, why the deuce should I have to give sixpence for a thing I'd as soon not have?
Georgette Heyer
#71. Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed
Louisa May Alcott
#72. She gave him a whimsical smile. "It was long ago, Your Grace. And I do not hold a grudge. Although I must admit that sometimes, I miss having someone to sleep with."
Reaching out, Sterling trailed his gloved finger along her bare arm. "We could remedy that. Tonight if you like.
Lorraine Heath
#73. Every time we allow our mind to harbour a grudge, nurse a grievance, entertain an impure fantasy, or wallow in self-pity, we are sowing to the flesh.
John R.W. Stott
#74. The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?
Brian Azzarello
#75. Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.
Lurlene McDaniel
#76. I never hold a grudge. As soon as I get even with the son-of-a bitch, I forget it.
W.C. Fields
#77. By now, I should have learned that luck, if she was a lady, was a mean-spirited bitch with a grudge against me.
Jaye Wells
#78. To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!
John Hersey
#79. Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
Petrarch
#80. 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!
Robert Browning
#83. When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.
Harold C. Schonberg
#84. It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.
Georgiana Burne-Jones
#85. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
William Shakespeare
#86. I have always been a little disconcerted by the passion women have for behaving beautifully at the deathbed of those they love. Sometimes it seems as if they grudge the longevity which postpones their chance of an effective scene.
W. Somerset Maugham
#87. Or say we have two rival dictators in a death grudge. Assuming ED289/290 develops nicely in pill form, allow me to slip each dictator a mickey. Soon their tongues are down each other's throats and doves of peace are pooping on their epaulets.
George Saunders
#88. It was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn't just real, but was holding a grudge.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#89. When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.
Steve Maraboli
#91. Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.
Chuck Berry
#92. They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.
Ilona Andrews
#93. If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#94. Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.
Ralph Marston
#95. Because Anno Domini, in the Year of Our Lord, is fine for Christians, but Thor gets a little upset. He still holds a grudge that Jesus never showed up for that duel he challenged him to." "Say what now?
Rick Riordan
#96. We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?
Leo Tolstoy
#97. Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy ... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge.
Michael Laudrup
#98. As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#99. Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
Booker T. Washington
#100. Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.
Timothy Keller
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