C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Resentment
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.Johnson.
1 There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.C. J. Fox.
2 Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice, and the security of innocence.Adam Smith.
3 Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.Johnson.
4 Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.Home.
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