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Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful. -- Pope Francis
I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either. -- Lily Allen
I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive. -- Yancy Butler
Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day. -- Warren Farrell
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. -- James Thurber
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. -- Sylvester Stallone
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. -- Bram Stoker
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. -- Thomas Jefferson
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. -- Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one. -- Stefan Zweig
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. -- J. K. Rowling
Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life. -- Kent Nerburn
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. -- Richard Dawkins
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them. -- Robert E. Lee
I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations. -- Johnny Carson
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin. -- Hannah Arendt
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you. -- Joseph Stiglitz
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. -- John Lydon
When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive. -- Carly Fiorina
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality. -- Evo Morales
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime. -- Tom Shales
Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place. -- Robert Dallek
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. -- Nick Cave
The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful. -- Heather Brooke
I'd rather be vindictive than smart. (Solin) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want -- Mike Gatting
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive. -- Thomas Browne
Blood thirsty has nothing to do with guns and swords, it has all to do with vindictive inclinations -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later. -- Muriel Lester
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master. -- Mark Twain
Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard. -- J. K. Rowling
Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned. -- Dean Koontz
I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people. -- Jim Dale
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics. -- Bertrand Russell
Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable. -- Thomas Sprat
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets. -- Raphael
They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive. -- Olaf Stapledon
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God. -- Cyril Connolly
Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad. -- Charlotte Bronte
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive. -- Robert Silverberg
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous. -- Jean Rhys
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges. -- Kim Harrison

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