a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.
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.
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
I’d rather be vindictive than smart. (Solin)
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.
One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.
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.
We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children. . . during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
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.
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want
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.
