Revenge Quotes

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.

Vengeance is a dish that should be eaten cold.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

William Penn

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Seneca

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.

Sir Francis Bacon

Vengeance is a dish that should be eaten cold.

English Proverb

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

Juvenal

Vengeance is sweet.

William Painter

Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

William Penn

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Seneca

Concealing himself from his father's wrath, behind the barn with wick turned low and his face two inches from the rough sawtooth page, Young Crawford had read of these atrocities in Beadle's Dime Library and fantasized about "calling out" the brutal old man who had sired him, "throwing down" on him with the "hogleg" he wore high on his hip, and blasting him into hell; after which he would go "on the scout," separating high-interest banks and arrogant railroad barons from their soiled coin and distributing it among their victims, or failing that into his own pockets and saddle pouches and living the "high Life" in saloons and "dance halls" where beautiful women in brief costumes admired his straight legs and square jaw and told him of the men who had "ruined" them (he knew not just how, only that the act was disgraceful and its effects permanent), whereupon he sought the blackguards out and deprived them of their lives. There was usually profit involved; invariably the men were thieves who lived in close proximity to their "ill-gotten booty," and didn't it say somewhere in Scripture that robbing a thief was no sin? If it didn't, it should have.

Loren D. Estleman

Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: "Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. "And then Opal will be loved."And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead.

Eoin Colfer

Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!

George R.R. Martin

Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.

Émile Gaboriau

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

Jonathan Kellerman

Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -

Sonya Hartnett

Still smiling she carried the TV through the doorway; then she gave it the strongest heave she could manage... When it hit Alan's oversized brick barbecue and the glass front of the TV smashed, Leslie didn't think she'd ever heard a more satisfying sound.

Jude Deveraux

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

Josephine Humphreys

When it comes to exacting revenge, it gets harder and harder to top yourself each successive time

Josh Stern

...There,in his foul, stinking cellar, our offended, down-trodden and ridiculed mouse immerses himself in cold, venomous and, cheifly, everlasting spite. For forty years on end he will remember the offence, down to the smallest and most shameful detail, constantly adding more shameful details of his own, maliciously teasing and irritating himself with his own fantasies. He himself will be ashamed of his fantasies, but nevertheless he will remember all of them, weighing them up and inventing all sorts of things that never happend to him, on the pretext that they too could have happend and he'll forgive nothing. Probably he'll start taking his revenge, but somehow in fits and starts, pettily, anonymously, from behind the stove, believing neither in his right to take revenge, nor in the success of his revenge and knowing beforehand that he will suffer one hundred times more from every single one of his attempts at revenge than the object of his revenge, who, most likely, wont't give a damn.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did our bidding. The centerpiece was a roasted stag. crowned with gilded antlers and stuffed with songbirds; they had hunted well. We were forbidden to kill the deer that fattened on our coleworts and stole our grain, and the venison tasted all the better for the salt of revenge.

Sarah Micklem

But life wasn't a fairy tale, and I had no problem doing what was necessary to get what I wanted, even if it meant playing dirty.

Michelle Madow

Takan had never truly defeated Zyid. Zyid had given his life to calm Takan's soul.

Isamu Fukui

That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant")

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

Andrew Levkoff

I've discovered the secret of revenge. Outlive the f---ers! I'll dance on their graves.

Michael Robotham

You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.

Neal Shusterman

Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.

Michelle Madow

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Charlotte Brontë

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

William Goldman

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

China Miéville

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Jodi Picoult

He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss.

Pete Wentz

-I'm going to heaven! I replied.-What do you mean, you're going to heaven?-Let me pass.-And what will you do in heaven, my poor child?-I'm going there to kill God, who killed Daddy.

Tom Reiss

I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The latter was particularly strange, since I'd known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she was good, which at the time I suppose was enough. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, "the Duchess," who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite.

Gillian Flynn

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Alain de Botton

As for Iago’s jealousy, one cannot believe that a seriously jealous man could behave towards his wife as Iago behaves towards Emilia, for the wife of a jealous husband is the first person to suffer. Not only is the relation of Iago and Emilia, as we see it on stage, without emotional tension, but also Emilia openly refers to a rumor of her infidelity as something already disposed of.Some such squire it wasThat turned your wit, the seamy side withoutAnd made you to suspect me with the Moor.At one point Iago states that, in order to revenge himself on Othello, he will not rest till he is even with him, wife for wife, but, in the play, no attempt at Desdemona’s seduction is made. Iago does not encourage Cassio to make one, and he even prevents Roderigo from getting anywhere near her.Finally, one who seriously desires personal revenge desires to reveal himself. The revenger’s greatest satisfaction is to be able to tell his victim to his face – "You thought you were all-powerful and untouchable and could injure me with impunity. Now you see that you were wrong. Perhaps you have forgotten what you did; let me have the pleasure of reminding you."When at the end of the play, Othello asks Iago in bewilderment why he has thus ensnared his soul and body, if his real motive were revenge for having been cuckolded or unjustly denied promotion, he could have said so, instead of refusing to explain.

W.H. Auden

Utu--Maori revenge. 'Do everything well, boy. Do it better than them. Be a better rugby player, better at your job. Outshine them everywhere. Tramp on their pride. Go far, and leave them sniveling in your dust.

Kris Pearson

Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of which you are the representative: cheap, ridiculous, but yet triumphant life, the everlasting antipodes and deadly enemy of beauty. I cannot say I despise you - for I am honest. You are stronger than I. I have no armour for the struggle between us, I have only the Word, avenging weapon of the weak. Today I have availed myself of this weapon. This letter is nothing but an act of revenge - you see how honourable I am - and if any word of mine is sharp and bright and beautiful enough to strike home, to make you feel the presence of a power you do not know, to shake even a minute your robust equilibrium, I shall rejoice indeed. -

Thomas Mann

Two things you should never do in a hurry: make up and revenge.

Iveta Cherneva

Oh, how I longed to burst through the doors and go walking through the streets, with my hands open, like weapons!

Marcel Béalu

Revenge is never pretty and often leaves you empty.--Alexandria "Dria" McAndrews

C.J. Ellisson

Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.

Sophie Jordan

When Everything you've had is stolen from you, all you have left is REVENGE

Emily Thorne

What can I say? Death is messy. And she had it coming.

MaryJanice Davidson

She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye.

Helen Zahavi

What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love.

Cornelia Funke

But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.

Margaret Atwood

It's been happening since I was in kindergarten. Not them all the time, but other kids, you know. Every day. It never stops, and it never goes away, thanks to the Internet--it just keeps happening every minute, every day. And I just want it to stop. I think about how to do it, you know. How to kill them. All kinds of elaborate things, like trapping them in pits and burying them alive, or covering them with concrete.

Rachel Caine

Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.

Ramon Bautista

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

Lauren Oliver

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

If you cut a tree down make sure you also cut the roots for if not a new tree will come

Hamza Akhtar

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.

Stephen King

Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth,Sweet is revenge--especially to women

George Gordon Byron

You never loved me and yet you are asking me to not revenge.

M.F. Moonzajer

The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.

M.F. Moonzajer

I certainly don’t have any interest in being on a dark veranda with any man except my husband, unlike some women do.” - Esther Norman

Barry Gray

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