Revenge Quotes

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

Looking good is the best revenge.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

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.

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

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

I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!

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.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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