Unspoken Resentment Quotes

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence.

We're fond of pointing out that we've known each other for over 25 years now and not once sat down alone to have dinner together. We pretty much avoid spending whatever time together that we can.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

Sometimes when a scene is written or directed to be shouted or played incredibly angrily, I always think it's way more terrifying when someone is fuming and talks in a very calm way. I always want people to shout at me if they're angry - it freaks me out that whole thing of, 'I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.'

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.