Famous quotes containing the word grudge:
“Surely you wouldn’t grudge the poor old man
Some humble way to save his self-respect.
He added, if you really care to know,
He meant to clear the upper pasture, too.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“what a grudge I am bearing against Death, that is standing in her
two eyes, and will not call me with a word.”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)
“Do not tell me ... of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)