Passive Aggressive Quotes

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!”
― Adam S. McHugh

“Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me
And it starts from the heart until it reaches my outer me”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go and Moving On

“fruit of passive-aggressive people. These people resist demands by indirect tactics. They will not take responsibility for their own choices; instead, they turn around and blame someone else for making them do it. Or they will agree to do things that they don’t really want to do, and then gripe about the person behind her back.”
― Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

“Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, New Arabian Nights

“[On Female Attraction to Men in Uniform] That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as he is perceived an iconic example of masculinity (particularly amongst traditionally warlike cultures). The damsel in distress theme always struck me as embodying this: the hapless, innocently beautiful woman unwittingly enraptures the heroic male so completely that he would risk all to submit to her at his own peril, and quite in spite of it.”
― Tiffany Madison

“Is she sane?’ asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. ‘I’ll repeat our conversation, word for word, Isabella; and you point out any charm it could have had for you.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The Vikings thought they were big shots because they had boats. You know how obnoxious people get when they own a boat. They always want to go on the boat. "We're taking the boat out this weekend. It's supposed to be beautiful. Why don't you come? You never come. You're always working. You know how many people wish they would get invited to come on the boat? And you turn it down.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“If I were some people,” she remarked acidly, “I’d mind my own business!”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins Comes Back

“Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.”
― Natalya Vorobyova, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from their being excessively amenable and meek, one is apt very soon after to find things intolerable from their touchiness and irritability.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Don't force people to live up to your dreams of who they might be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Passive Aggression – Being covertly spiteful with the intent of inflicting mental pain.”
― Ashta-Deb, Life Happens To Us: A True Story

“I can’t talk, I’m busy making you tea,” I grumbled. I flicked the kettle on, hoping the noise would drown him out.
William stared at me for a second, blinking slowly. “Are you passively-aggressively making me tea?”
“Correct.”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For All

“You speak to me in locked cages.
In open sentences with closed meanings.
In riddles I can never seem to understand.

Around you Nkem, I feel lost.
Un-at-home. Dismembered.

In many small bits.
And in tiny minuscule pieces.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“Passive-aggressive behavior is the perverse art of letting someone know you’re not happy without actually telling them.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Why, a good evening to you, dear lady! Forgive the spartan accommodations; I was not expecting such honored company tonight, as you are manifestly aware.”
― D.D. Webb, The Gods are Bastards

“I was a passive aggressive coward. That sort of thing clung to your flesh like a smell, rot turned inside out. People could sense it on you; it caused them to be distrustful. It was hard to make friends when you had the smell, hard to keep them when you did make them. You held back from them and they held back from you, an even trade of nothingness.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“There’s a fine line between being impish and being a passive-aggressive jerk.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Don’t let the passive-aggressive person in your life ruin your day. They just want to be found out.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Passive-aggressive behavior is the art of saying one thing, meaning another.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“The passive-aggressive person does not say what he thinks. He says what he thinks you want to hear.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“One of the most annoying things in the world is passive-aggressive behavior. If you hate someone, tell them to their face.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“The only way to make a passive-aggressive person smile is to tell them what they want to hear.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“There’s nothing passive about being passive-aggressive.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Being passive-aggressive is like a broken record. It just plays itself all day long.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Sometimes you just have to be the bigger person and let someone know that they are being jerks.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“I wanted to shout, but instead I did the dishes. In a way that was more noisy than usual.”
― Sally Andrew, Recipes for Love and Murder