Revenge Quotes

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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.

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.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Justice is revenge.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

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.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

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.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

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.

Revenge doesn't stop.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

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?

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.