Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

There's always someone out there being mean, but what upsets me is the spite. Why are you like that? Why are you so horrible?

My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Unkindness is quite a major sin.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Hatred is settled anger.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

I would never do anything just for spite.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

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

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

People love to hate other people.