Don't cut off your nose to spite your face

Cultural  

1. Don't engage in an act of anger or revenge that will hurt you more than it hurts anyone else.

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Example Sentences

“You don’t cut off your nose to spite your face,” he said of moves by other dissident GOP senators, such as Mr. Flake blocking all judicial picks in a failed bid to force a vote on legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

From Washington Times

There was this wise psychologist that all of my college friends were somehow going to at the same time, who went ‘Now Ted, don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. Just show up. Take a Valium tonight.’

From Los Angeles Times

So, don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.

From The Verge

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

From New York Times

But don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

From Project Gutenberg