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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
- Murder’s out of tune,
- And sweet revenge grows harsh.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello
When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence.
PATRICE REDD VECCHIONE, Revenge and Forgiveness
If I were going to set out to oppress other people, I would surely prefer to select for my victims persons whose first response is forgiveness rather than persons whose first response is revenge.
JEFFRIE G. MURPHY, Getting Even
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE, Rodogune
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior.
Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.
Universal though the instinct for revenge may be, it is much stronger in some of us than others. And those who have it in abundance apparently pay something of a price.
- Revenge, at first though sweet,
- Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Lunatic Cafe
When you have the power to screw people over and you don't--well, that's when you get to show who you really are.
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.
GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss
- Vengeance is just:
- Justly we rid the earth of human fiends
- Who carry hell for pattern in their souls.
- But in high vengeance there is noble scorn:
- It tortures not the torturer, nor gives
- Iniquitous payment for iniquity.
- The great avenging angel does not crawl
- To kill the serpent with a mimic fang;
- He stands erect, with sword of keenest edge
- That slays like lightning.
GEORGE ELIOT, The Spanish Gypsy
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA, quoted in 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck In a Moment and Can't Get Out Of It!
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