Revenge Quotes
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. - Austin O'Malley
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. - German Proverb
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The best revenge is massive success. - Frank Sinatra
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. - Walter Weckler
Success is the sweetest revenge. - Vanessa Williams
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. - Francis Bacon
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. - Charlotte Bronte
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. - Pierre Corneille
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi
One good act of vengeance deserves another. - John Jefferson
Don't get mad, get even. - Robert F. Kennedy
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. - Martin Luther King Jr.
She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. - Ralph McGill
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. - John Milton
Surviving well is your finest revenge. - Morgan Nito
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. - Samuel Johnson
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? - William Shakespeare
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. - George Bernard Shaw
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
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. - George Santayana
The sun should not set upon our anger; neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. - Charles Caleb Colton
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - John Milton
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. - Euripides
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. - Confucius
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.-Pat Brown
Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.-Joe Slovo
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.-John Boyd Orr
Success is the sweetest revenge.-Vanessa Williams
The best revenge in the world is success.-Suge Knight
The best revenge is massive success.-Frank Sinatra
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.-Marcus Aurelius
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.-Marya Mannes
The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.-Hailee Steinfeld
The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.-Colin Mochrie
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.-Siobhan Fahey
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.-A. B. Yehoshua
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
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.-Josh Billings
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.-Jean Baudrillard
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.-Francis Bacon
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.-Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.Alexander Pope
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.-Marcus Aurelius
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.-Pierre Corneille
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.-Francis Bacon
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.-Uwe Boll
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.-Hiawatha
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.-Susan Sontag
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.-George Santayana
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.-Friedrich Nietzsche
It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.-Julian Clary
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.-William Odom
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.-Vin Diesel
Justice is revenge.-Saad Hariri
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.-Paul Gauguin
Living well is the best revenge.-George Herbert
Looking good is the best revenge.-Ivana Trump
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.-Meir Kahane
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.-Marquis de Sade
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.-Marianne Williamson
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.-Ambrose Bierce
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.-Thomas Fuller
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.-Niccolo Machiavelli