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63 quotes that mention anger and forgiveness in so many words. Each one is checked against the book it comes from.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice
But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like [the wrong-doer].
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot
Envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide
A soft answer turneth away wrath
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
Pride, which inspires, often serves to moderate envy.
There is more self-love than love in jealousy.
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
We pardon in the degree that we love.
There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.
When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, flirtation by true love.
We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
More persons exist without self-love than without envy.
One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior.
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves!
Pity is for the living, Envy is for the dead.
The spirit of wrath—not the words—is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.
The cut worm forgives the plough.
A dead body revenges not injuries.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
CONGRATULATION, n. The civility of envy.
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another’s superiority.
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
LONGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, “I beg your pardon,” and it is not inconsistent with disregard of the rights of others.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
Jealousy lives upon doubt; and comes to an end or becomes a fury as soon as it passes from doubt to certainty.
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
If we judge of love by the majority of its results it rather resembles hatred than friendship.
The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most yet obliged to praise it.
The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.
We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.
We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery—we only dislike the method.
Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are.
Infidelities should extinguish love, and we ought not to be jealous when we have cause to be so. No persons escape causing jealousy who are worthy of exciting it.
The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
What makes the grief of shame and jealousy so acute is that vanity cannot aid us in enduring them.
Pride as the other passions has its follies. We are ashamed to own we are jealous, and yet we plume ourselves in having been and being able to be so.
Jealousy is the worst of all evils, yet the one that is least pitied by those who cause it.
Heavy, melancholy men turn lighter, and come temporarily to their surface, precisely by that which makes others heavy—by hatred and love.
In affability there is no hatred of men, but precisely on that account a great deal too much contempt of men.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns so soon to hatred.
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill-will and envy.
Ill-favour and hatred limit the spectator to the surface, even when keen perception is added unto them; but when keen perception unites with good-will and love, it gets at the heart of man and the world; nay, it may hope to reach the highest goal of all.
At court, people embrace without acquaintance, serve one another without friendship, and injure one another without hatred. Interest, not sentiment, is the growth of that soil.