REVENGE QUOTES
quotations about revenge
Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper.
BEYONCÉ
Formation
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.
JOSEPH FINDER
Paranoia
Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.
MAX LUCADO
Let the Journey Begin
Revenge is like a ghost. It takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched until the last man standing has fallen.
VLADMIR MAKAROV
Modern Warfare 2
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
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
ISAAC BARROW
sermon XXXIII
On him that takes revenge, revenge shall be taken, and by a real evil he shall dearly pay for the goods that are but airy and fantastical; it 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.
JEREMY TAYLOR
"Apples of Sodom"
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
BIBLE
Exodus 21:24
Very often when people speak of justice, they are not referring to some abstract concept of law, or an ethereal vision of divine justice, but rather the more earthly idea of responding to a temporal wrong. They simply want to make sure that he who has caused suffering ends up suffering himself. The only way for the wrongdoer to know the pain that he has caused is by experiencing his own pain. That's why the seeking of revenge is an understandable human impulse, precisely because, to the revenge-seeker, the result feels like justice. It speaks to the underlying raw hurt, the primal sense that some life-altering event had taken place, and that the perpetrator must be made to feel the same sense of deprivation and loss.
THANE ROSENBAUM
The Myth of Moral Justice
When they say revenge is a dish best served up cold they were wrong ... revenge for me has instead turned out to be a dish served hot, steamy and very satisfying!
VANESSA E. SILVER
Screwing for Revenge
He that has revenge in his power, and does not use it, is the greater man.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
I'm not real big on repentance ... I like revenge better.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
The Lunatic Cafe
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
No matter the reason, revenge causes a cycle that continues and never ends. It poisons the lives of everyone around you, close to you. Seeking revenge becomes all that you desire but comes at a hefty price.
AARON GROMIS
Crescent Moon: Thousand-Man Slayer
In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Beyond Good and Evil
Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.
THOMAS OTWAY
Venice Preserved
The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA
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Revenge holds another irony. It so often proves unnecessary. "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord," wrote an ancient Hebrew sage. No mere pious platitude. An axiom of human psychology that is too little understood. Substitute "Nature" for "the Lord," if you desire. Those given to harming others bear within themselves the seeds of their own destruction. When a man injures you, it's often better to let Nature take her course. That wise old lady is pretty sure to do a juster and more artistic job of punishment than you.
GARRET SMITH
Living Sparks of Life
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Rodogune
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion