Top 100 Quotes About Revenge
#1. Revenge might be sweet and although friendship might be sweeter, once you find true love you will taste the sweetest thing life has to offer
Morten Hogsberg
#3. Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
John Dryden
#4. A true southern lady can out manipulate General Lee when it comes to revenge.
Liliana Hart
#5. Our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.
Orlando Rodriguez
#6. In his experience, motives were simple. There was greed, there was jealousy, he'd seen plenty of revenge played out in gang-related crimes, there was even sadism, and sometimes there was flat-out stupidity, which was a pretty powerful motivator in itself.
Jonathan L. Howard
#7. Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller
#8. And let it here be noted that men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver. Wherefore the injury we do to a man should be of a sort to leave no fear of reprisals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#10. Revenge is solely about passion. Rage. Fury. Vengeance, on the other hand, is about retribution for a crime done against oneself.
Pete Kahle
#11. There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ... Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
Francis Bacon
#12. That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!
James Patterson
#13. Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
Frank Herbert
#14. Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?
Mario Puzo
#15. Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems
Sarah Jakes
#16. The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.
Molly Haskell
#17. The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.' There
Marcus Aurelius
#18. Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
J.K. Rowling
#19. From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'
Janine Di Giovanni
#20. There is no pleasure in the world to match the giddiness of revenge.
John Beachem
#21. Christianity is not a religion that offers the solace of revenge to its adherents. For that you must go to the old women who know which herbs to pluck and what charms to say under a waning moon.
Bernard Cornwell
#22. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#24. Revenge is like a poison in our heart before you now it; turns us into something ugly
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#25. Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
Samuel Johnson
#26. The fruit of worldly love is indeed revenge (vengeance).
Dada Bhagwan
#27. I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
Lana Parrilla
#28. For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
Joyce Carol Oates
#29. While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
Dan Ariely
#30. So it's okay to kill if your intentions are pure?" "Hasn't that always been the case?" Eliot takes a swig of his beer and flops back on the sofa. "Revenge. Capital punishment. Euthanasia. War.
Judd Trichter
#31. Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.
Patricia Moyes
#32. An act of revenge is deeply inhumane, and in any case, this action, is driven from a low affect.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#33. I guess ,you want revenge, Ruthless Me, whispered. You bet your sweet ass, I do.
C.J. Roberts
#34. Revenge is the capitalism of the poor: conserve the original wound, defer immediate gratification, fatten the first insult with new insults, invest and reinvest spite, and ke waiting for the perfect moment to strike back.
Aravind Adiga
#35. In moments of pain, we seek revenge.
Ami Ayalon
#36. Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
Sherman Alexie
#38. One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.
Dale Peck
#39. You can't seek revenge then become obedient again. You can't pick and choose when you will and won't follow God. It's something that's done all the time or not at all.
Janelle Mowery
#40. Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
Adam Michnik
#41. The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
Theodor W. Adorno
#42. They claim there's a rationale for the children, don't they, sir?"
"Yes. Those babes in arms will grow up and want revenge on the Nazis in about 1963. I suppose the rationale for the women under forty-five is that they might be pregnant. And the rationale for the older women is while we're at it.
Martin Amis
#43. Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Steven Pinker
#45. Revenge,' he said softly, 'is the act of a despicable and petty character. Which is no doubt why I've always enjoyed it so much.
Lisa Kleypas
#46. One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor.
Steven Pinker
#47. You can't change the world if your motive is revenge. Vibes like that just aren't productive.
Charlie Huston
#48. So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
Seamus Heaney
#49. Revenge is like a ghost ... It takes over every man it touches ... Its thirst cannot be quenched ... Until the last man standing has fallen ...
Vladimir Makarov
#50. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon
#51. By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
Charles Caleb Colton
#52. There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.
Minette Walters
#53. 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.
Mark Twain
#54. Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
Desmond Tutu
#55. Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.
Kingsley Amis
#56. In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.
Amy Tan
#59. Fernand," cried he, "of my hundred names I need only tell you one, to overwhelm you! But you guess it now do you not? - or, rather, you remember it? For notwithstanding all my sorrows and my tortures, I show you today a face which the happiness of revenge makes young again..
Alexandre Dumas
#60. To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.
Desmond Tutu
#61. Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in. V
Piper Kerman
#62. Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
Francis Bacon
#63. My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.
Jane Elliot
#64. Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#65. Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.
Jeanette Winterson
#66. Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands
#67. That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone having a good fucking laugh.
Chuck Palahniuk
#68. In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#69. Revenge! No - what good would that do? - it would make him no better, and me no happier.' 'I
Anne Bronte
#70. The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
John Wesley
#71. I rode up, walked past a few miles of wallpaper that was someone's revenge for life's disappointments.
Keith Laumer
#72. Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor are not helped by taking revenge against the rich, but by opening the doors to social advancement. Since
Roger Scruton
#73. You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston
Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious
Kevin Heath
#74. Ask yourself what it is you want more, to ease your ancient fear or to revenge your childish dopey injured male pride." I
Don DeLillo
#75. Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
Sylvester Stallone
#76. Darkness ... When everything that you know and love ... is taken from you so harshly ... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge ... and no one can save you.
Masashi Kishimoto
#77. Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either lick their wounds in humiliated silence or start the Trojan Wars. Having no other power or public voice, the betrayed woman reaches for her pen.
Frances Wilson
#78. Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
Roger Penrose
#79. Real revenge is making something of yourself.
Gerard Way
#80. The thought of revenge always gave her a warm fuzzy feeling.
Eoin Colfer
#81. The ultimate revenge isn't the murder of my enemy. It's the whisper of truth on my last stolen breath.
Keri Lake
#82. Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
Michael K. Williams
#83. Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.
Roman Polanski
#84. I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
Amy Adams
#85. However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.
Emily Bronte
#86. We find that most of our problems are of our own making. From Moonshiner's Revenge
Fred L. Funk
#87. We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it's to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with a final mistake... We always have to go back to pull ourselves out of ignorance or cast ourselves deeper into revenge.
Amy Rachiele
#88. Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
Chris Bradford
#90. Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers - vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#92. It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . I'll get my revenge.
Maria Sharapova
#93. With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
Martin Freeman
#94. Star Wars Episode Three (And One Quarter): Revenge Of The Hicks
Ron White
#95. Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner ... Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.
Saddam Hussein
#96. Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
Alexandre Dumas
#97. What lies before me is the hollow husk of a memory turned nightmare, with bleached colors, crumbling structures, and rot corrupting everything it touches. This is the work of Mother Nature gone insane, exacting her revenge and delving deeper into madness in the process.
Ken Lange
#98. In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy
#99. If you seek revenge, it means you're scared or you feel guilty for what happened in some way. It's okay to be angry with someone, but don't think about revenge. It's like a disease that eats you up.
David Miller
#100. To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
Desmond Tutu
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