Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

I am not a man who wants revenge.

Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.

I think revenge is an extremely potent and powerful weapon, and hatred is more powerful sometimes than love.

Nobody is allowed to make money by defaming me. I may forgive, but I'll never forget.

There's people that have all these other qualities, but if you've got a spiteful streak, that will take you to realms people have no concept of.

I don't have any grievance against anybody.

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.