Revenge Quotes
|
|
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place. (Quote by - Meir Kahane)
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)
She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. (Quote by - Ralph McGill)
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge. (Quote by - Colin Mochrie)
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge (Quote by - John Locke)
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (Quote by - Gerald Ford)
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. (Quote by - Douglas Horton)
I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge. (Quote by - Mitchell Baker)
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. (Quote by - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill)
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. (Quote by - John Pomfret)
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. (Quote by - Uwe Boll)
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
If the Aussie public do not get the instant revenge they are desperately seeking here, the spotlight will quickly focus on Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and others, creating enormous tension within their ranks. (Quote by - Jonathan Agnew)
Murder's out of tune,And sweet revenge grows harsh. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sweet is revenge--especially to women. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. (Quote by - John Milton)
Live well. It is the greatest revenge. (Quote by - The Talmud)
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. (Quote by - Homer)
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Maya is hellbent on revenge. She cannot accept Dev has chosen Sunita instead of her. (Quote by - Sasha Behar)
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)
I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent. (Quote by - David Prowse)
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me! (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. (Quote by - John Boyd Orr)
No more tears now; I will think about revenge. (Quote by - Mary, Queen of Scots)
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. (Quote by - Francis Bacon )
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
The tree of revenge does not carry fruit (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. (Quote by - Bobby Sands)
Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments. (Quote by - Radha Mitchell)
Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy. (Quote by - Joe Slovo)
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. (Quote by - German Proverb)
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)
Gorgeous hair is the best revenge. (Quote by - Ivana Trump)
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge (Quote by - Juvenal)
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. (Quote by - Tony Scott)
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. (Quote by - Confucius )
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. (Quote by - Confucius)
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. (Quote by - Sandra Cisneros)
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. (Quote by - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel)
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr)
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980. (Quote by - William Odom)
Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. (Quote by - Joseph Hall)
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. (Quote by - Sacha Guitry)
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. (Quote by - Ralph Steadman)
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. (Quote by - Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. (Quote by - Earl of Chesterfield)
Justice is revenge. (Quote by - Saad Hariri)
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. (Quote by - John Milton)
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games. (Quote by - Alan Dean Foster)
While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit. (Quote by - Francois de Malherbe)
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops. (Quote by - Siobhan Fahey)
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Success is the sweetest revenge. (Quote by - Vanessa Williams)
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)
And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I am Jack's smirking revenge. (Quote by - Edward Norton)
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. (Quote by - A. B. Yehoshua)
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. (Quote by - Paul Gauguin)
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge. (Quote by - Hiawatha)
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. (Quote by - Meir Kahane)
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. (Quote by - Henry Home)
Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. (Quote by - John Milton)
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die! (Quote by - Ngo Dinh Diem)
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films. (Quote by - Vin Diesel)
Revenge proves its own executioner. (Quote by - John Ford)
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate. (Quote by - Rosanne Cash)
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. (Quote by - George Santayana)
One good act of vengeance deserves another. (Quote by - John Jefferson)
For some reason, I picked up the book. (Quote by - Elizabeth Buchan)
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. (Quote by - Marya Mannes)
Don't get mad, get even. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)
There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Looking good is the best revenge. (Quote by - Ivana Trump)
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Women do most delight in revenge. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Revenge is sweet and not fattening. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. (Quote by - Robert Crumb)
All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. (Quote by - Thrace of Macedonia)
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. (Quote by - John McCarthy)
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. (Quote by - Dave Matthews)
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. (Quote by - Thrace of Macedonia)
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Revenge is an inhuman word. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. (Quote by - Walter Weckler)
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing. (Quote by - Gavrilo Princip)
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. (Quote by - Arthur M. Schlesinger)
Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. (Quote by - Homer)
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. (Quote by - Elizabeth Fry)
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
People don't remember. Revenge is sweet. (Quote by - Tracey Emin)
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. (Quote by - William Wycherley)
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Revenge is a confession of pain (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
Souls made of fire and children of the sun,With whom Revenge is virtue. (Quote by - Edward Young)
This had nothing to do with Chelsea. It was stupid people with nothing to do other than sending letters. Some people are nasty and capable of stupid things when it comes to revenge. (Quote by - Ibrahima Sonko)
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not? (Quote by - Gregg Easterbrook)
Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The best revenge is massive success. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation. (Quote by - Julian Clary)
What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection? (Quote by - Edward Young)
The best revenge in the world is success. (Quote by - Suge Knight)
