Top 100 Grudge Quotes
#1. 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.
Gregory Maguire
#2. 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
#3. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
Christopher Hitchens
#4. If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn't agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to 'report' to the powers that be.
Mark Alders
#5. Rather than making you never want to eat chicken again, it simply makes you angry. It makes you hold a grudge. You'll eat chicken again, by God, and you'll chew really, really hard.
David Rakoff
#6. If you love someone enough, you find you can forgive them for just about anything, because living without them is more miserable than any grudge you could hold.
Linda Kage
#7. I lived in a place where the weather holds a grudge against humans. Winter in Chicago is winter defined (..)
Royce Prouty
#8. Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
Maria Weston Chapman
#10. I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting.
Pema Chodron
#13. 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.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#14. Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.
Jeaniene Frost
#15. Kye had scowled and said, "I don't like you anymore; you didn't come back when you said you would." Then he'd wrapped himself around her leg and said, "Okay, I forgive you." The kid didn't hold a grudge long.
Suzanne Wright
#16. I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
Anne Lamott
#17. Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
Robert Breault
#18. 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.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#20. I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'
Doug Harvey
#21. In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#22. Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed!
Diana Gabaldon
#23. Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.
Tom Giaquinto
#24. Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people ... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
Steve Maraboli
#25. The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.
Gautama Buddha
#26. Just as I was beginning my drift into unconsciousness, there was an explosion. Not a movie explosion but a small real-life explosion, like the ignition of an unhappy gas oven that holds a grudge against its owner.
Andrew Davidson
#27. Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#28. Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
Robertson Davies
#29. 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.
Jodi Picoult
#30. I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.
Steven Adler
#31. That's where you're wrong," said Kaz. "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." "I'm
Leigh Bardugo
#33. I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.
Diplo
#34. Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
Vijay Mallya
#35. The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.
Criss Jami
#36. I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
Tom Wolfe
#37. The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.
David Ogilvy
#38. Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you've got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.
Benjamin Wood
#39. I liked working on 'The Grudge 2.' It was really fun, and I got to meet a lot of cool people. I think the film is a fine example of horror, and I felt excited that I could act in something like that.
Shaun Sipos
#40. Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
SARK
#42. I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
Lloyd Alexander
#43. Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed.
Mary Renault
#44. It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.
Lee L Jampolsky
#45. O Allah! 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
Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah
#46. The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.
Renata Adler
#47. I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#48. I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.
Tony Fernandes
#49. It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
P.D. James
#50. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.
George Herbert
#51. She looked so cute wen she was apologizing that Helen couldn't even pick up a grudge, let alone carry one.
Josephine Angelini
#52. If you ever try to do anything to restrict my movements again, you'll find out I know how to hold a grudge too," she said between her teeth. "In fact, I have a real talent for it.
Thea Harrison
#53. Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.
Dana Gould
#54. What's the matter with you, Madox? You got a grudge against the world?
Charles Williams
#55. Hatred, rancor and grudge, they are not humanity elements; but you need to have them to survive.
M.F. Moonzajer
#56. The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.
Saint Sebastian
#57. People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop
#58. I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.
You did.
Is that forgiveness?
I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.
Janet Mullany
#62. Don't carry a grudge; while you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.
Buddy Hackett
#64. If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or make him chary.
Toba Beta
#65. And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim.
Jonathan Tropper
#66. They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.
Liane Moriarty
#67. I'm not one of those people who holds a grudge about anything.
Cheryl Cole
#68. 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.
Vladimir Nabokov
#69. All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
Amy Carmichael
#70. And the past, for those foolish enough to subscribe to it, holds a grudge harder than anything known to man.
Jobie Hughes
#71. Pastime with good company
I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I.
Henry VIII Of England
#72. Lou had a memory like an elephant; it took a lot to cause her to hold a grudge, but once she achieved it, it was even harder for her to let go.
Robyn Carr
#73. The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.
Max Lucado
#76. At least, he thinks, the fellow has the wit to see what this is about: not one year's grudge or two, but a fat extract from the book of grief, kept since the cardinal came down. He says, 'Life pays you out, Norris. Don't you find?
Hilary Mantel
#77. Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.
Theodor Mommsen
#79. I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
Viktor E. Frankl
#80. The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything."
Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, "Know Your Enemy.
Kristine McGuire
#81. I'm your worst damn nightmare, Skeletor. I'm a vampire killer with fangs and a grudge.
Rachel Caine
#82. Well, don't worry about it too much, princess. Let ice-boy cool off for the night and then try to talk to him tomorrow. He wont stay angry with you too long, I bet. Ash isn't one to hold a grudge. '
'What are you talking about? He's held a grudge against you for centuries!'
'Oh, right.
Julie Kagawa
#83. I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me.
Steve Maraboli
#84. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
Stephen Richards
#85. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
Margaret Atwood
#86. Later he wrote to Lodge: I don't grudge the broken arm a bit ... I'm always ready to pay the piper when I've had a good dance; and every now and then I like to drink the wine of life with brandy in it.
Edmund Morris
#87. Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.
Wayne Dyer
#88. Most of the people who feel they are unhappy now are holding a grudge and wishing unhappiness on that person.
CLAMP
#90. The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.
Margaret Laurence
#91. I would try to pick the guitar up sometimes, like, "Hey, remember me?" It was like reintroducing yourself to someone who's got a grudge.
Feist
#93. Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.
Stephen Baxter
#94. If she had to choose which aspect of the suite she despised most, it would have been a hard call between the lock and the garden, though these days she nursed a particular grudge against the curtains.
Marie Rutkoski
#96. Thor gets a little upset. He still holds a grudge that Jesus never showed up for that duel he challenged him to.
Rick Riordan
#97. The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world.
Martin Luther
#98. Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.
Arthur Dobrin
#99. The tranquilizers he had been given had worn off, leaving him with a drug hangover and a bitter grudge against the entire world.
Wilbur Smith
#100. No one knows how to hold a grudge like a proper Southerner.
Charles M. Blow
