Vindictive Quotes

“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“Some people will label you as vindictive, unforgiving or even evil for not allowing them to hurt you, yet again.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

“In the hands of a cruel person, honesty can be a lethal weapon.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Interesting how the selfish, the ignorant, and the constantly angry all tend to be the same person.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Sir William had only stayed in our company for two nights before leaving during a spectacularly blustery storm. As I watched him leave I evilly hoped that the wind would blow him straight off his horse.”
― M.L LeGette, The Unicorn Girl

“Partly, I still felt something of the sheer unholy excitement which I had experienced initially at the thought of a friend (especially this one) in trouble.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“NO one from Bill Cosby’s family was by his side in court [for the sentencing]. Not his children, not Camille. But Camille was still vocal and outraged. In fact, the week before, she had hand delivered an ethics complaint about Judge O’Neill to the state’s Judicial Conduct Board. Her complaint claimed that O’Neill had a grudge with Castor dating back to 1999 when they both ran for district attorney and O’Neill dated a woman in Castor’s office.
She also called O’Neill “arrogant,” “corrupt,” and “unethical” and revealed she’d hired a retired FBI agent to investigate the judge.”
― Nicole Weisensee Egan, Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad

“... a culture of defensive self-censorship seemed to be emerging, partly in response to students who were quick to "call out" or shame others for small things that they deemed to be insensitive... We called this pattern vindictive protectiveness”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“When she looked at it from a distance, she saw how absurd her plan was: a meaningful cookbook from Molly Babcock? It was like trying to make potatoes dauphine from a Mr. Potato Head.
And Isabella would've arrived at this conclusion, would've understood this point eventually, if it hadn't been for the trip to New Jersey and the discovery of Molly's mother. Candy Babcock, with her collection of recipes and little notes to herself and articles that she clipped, had all of the depth, the culinary point of view, the hard-won kitchen knowledge that Molly lacked. Candy had something real to say about food, something important: it came from a lifetime of making it, thanklessly, for a husband and daughter who clearly took it all for granted.
And that triggered something in Isabella. The farther she drove through the mountains, the more she realized that the ghost of Candy Babcock had inhabited her that day in the basement of Molly's childhood home. After that, Isabella's job was no longer to facilitate Molly's vision, of which there was very little; her job was to vindicate the life of a woman who had lived in the shadows, whose passions went uncelebrated, whose contributions went unrecognized. A woman, it turned out, who was a lot like Isabella.”
― Adam D. Roberts, Food Person