Compounds Quote by Charles Dickens

“Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.”

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur…

— Samuel Johnson

Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is…

— Richard G. Scott

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

— Victor Hugo

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

— Alice Miller

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

— Ambrose Bierce

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

— Kristen Ashley

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

— Ellen Goodman

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

— Seneca the Younger

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

— Ambrose Bierce

Hatred is a term used in envious situations

— Jacob Wagner