Top 100 Resent Quotes
#1. It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.
Samuel Butler
#3. I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
Anita Hill
#4. The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.
Thomas Sowell
#5. 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
#6. This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don't mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.
J.D. Salinger
#7. Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be.
L.M. Montgomery
#8. Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.
George Soros
#9. 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
#10. As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.
James Howard Kunstler
#11. Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime and give thanks for it, it will soon be increased. If we resent our position and dwell upon what we lack, that is exactly what we get back.
Robert Scheid
#12. I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'
Ronald Reagan
#13. We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#14. I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'
David Duchovny
#15. My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.
Channing Tatum
#16. Or I can forgive and forget ... 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 ... we always have a choice.
M.L. Stedman
#17. Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
Benjamin Spock
#18. 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
#19. What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.
Siouxsie Sioux
#20. You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me."
"I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.
Nalini Singh
#22. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Pete Seeger
#23. Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?
Richard Bach
#26. A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.
James Dobson
#28. Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
Graham Russell
#29. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?
Virginia Woolf
#30. If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
Sarah McLachlan
#31. The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#32. (I resent people who use phrases like "my first," so the person they're speaking to is practically obliged to imagine them having sex to complete the sentence. It's not nice.)
Anna Maxted
#33. I tried to stay mad at her, but it wasn't easy. We'd been through a lot together. She saved my life plenty of times. It was stupid of me to resent her.
Rick Riordan
#34. Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
Mary Renault
#35. Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But Ashenden did not dislike him. His self-satisfaction was enormous but so ingenuous that you could not resent it; his conceit was so childlike that you could only smile at it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#36. Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
Abraham Verghese
#37. To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations.
William Hazlitt
#38. Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
Tiffany Madison
#39. If one is seeking reasons for disloyalty, it is useful to find something one can resent.
John Christopher
#40. I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.
Rachel Zucker
#41. We resent being talked to. We'd rather be talked with.
Susan Scott
#42. Most people throw away their personal power ... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy.
Steve Maraboli
#43. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
M.L. Stedman
#44. I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#45. 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
#46. I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
Kate Winslet
#47. A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.
Will Cuppy
#48. I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of 'sex slave' and 'prostitute' so much. I was a mistress!
Kola Boof
#49. 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
#50. Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
Randy Alcorn
#51. Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
Barbra Streisand
#52. I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.
Massad Ayoob
#53. People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.
Rupert Murdoch
#55. People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.
Darren Hardy
#56. While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.
Chris Matthews
#57. ..I resent the jerk part. I'm meaner than that....
Finn Marlowe
#58. I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.
Azar Nafisi
#59. Can I join you at lunch?"
She paused. "You have every other day."
He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. "Yes. But you resented it every other day."
"What makes you think I won't resent it today?"
"Hope. It's what I live on ...
Melissa Marr
#60. I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it needs to pay to keep top talent. I'm just afraid to think where all of this will end up because the overall impact seems to be stretching far beyond the scoreboard.
LZ Granderson
#61. But whom could I resent?...the wheel of history turned by those war- and peacemakers whom I did not know?
Uyen Nicole Duong
#62. You can't resent the other person for not giving you what you didn't ask for.
T. Scott McLeod
#63. 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
#64. I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.
Barack Obama
#65. It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.
Bo Bennett
#66. Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)
Robert A. Heinlein
#67. The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.
Cynthia Ozick
#68. You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually?
Ayn Rand
#69. The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn't always understand, that was in order too: they were something in a foreign language - star-talk.
L.P. Hartley
#70. In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.
Zicheng Hong
#71. Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it.
Shirley Hazzard
#72. There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.
Tim Willits
#73. Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.
T. Harv Eker
#74. 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
#75. The trick to getting through life, she'd told him, is not to resent it when it isn't exactly how you think it should be.
Sarah Addison Allen
#76. I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.
Wayne Dyer
#77. The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.
Francis Ford Coppola
#78. I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
Fiona Apple
#79. I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
Winston Churchill
#80. I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
Patty Hearst
#81. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.
James Monroe
#82. The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just another part of it.
Brenna Yovanoff
#83. I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.
Luis Fortuno
#84. I don't want you to change your life for me. You'll have to make the same decision every day, over and over - it must be for yourself alone. Otherwise you will come to resent me.
Lisa Kleypas
#85. The only person you resent is yourself.
John Hewson
#86. I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
Anne Lamott
#87. Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have wounds
and scars of their own. They may even be envying us.
Harold S. Kushner
#88. Dorian Skotos became my savior in that moment, more so than he already was. And part of me - the Dark, ugly, abhorrent side - began to resent him for it.
S.L. Jennings
#89. She felt shy, like a precious gift being gloatingly unwrapped, but she didn't resent his moment of purely masculine triumph. The glory of the moment was also hers, this beautiful man hers. He was giving himself to her and asking nothing but what she was willing to give in return.
Susan Napier
#90. For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.
Susan Glaspell
#91. You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison.
Fine. I don't you like you, either.
N.K. Jemisin
#92. Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
George Burns
#93. When we're in love, we may resent it, but we certainly miss love once it's gone.
Naguib Mahfouz
#94. I love Stephen King as much as any red rum drinking American, but I resent the fact that I, the bookseller, am his bitch.
Caroline Kepnes
#95. We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.
Christine Feehan
#96. The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.
They all need to go on safari together.
Thomas L. Friedman
#97. In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
Gary Weiss
#98. If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
Olivia Wilde
#99. When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
Chuck Palahniuk
#100. The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
George Mikes
