Vindictive Quotes
46 quotes by 45 authors
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I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the…
— Nick Cave
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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
— Mark Twain
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The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one…
— Tim Field
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To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
— Thomas Browne
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty…
— Raphael
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The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that…
— Robert Silverberg
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Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would…
— Martin Rees
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I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want
— Mike Gatting
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I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.
— Lily Allen
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An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
— Yancy Butler
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Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this…
— Kent Nerburn
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He…
— Bram Stoker
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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer.…
— Philip Yancey
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In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze…
— Oswald Chambers
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I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have…
— Robert E. Lee
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or…
— Tom Shales
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