Top Revenge Quotes Collection

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Image of Simon R. Green
Revenge is simply justice with teeth.
- Simon R. Green
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Image of Francis Quarles
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.
- Francis Quarles
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Image of Ruby Wax
My whole career has been an act of revenge.
- Ruby Wax
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Image of Bram Stoker
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
- Bram Stoker
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Image of Mary Jo Putney
Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.
- Mary Jo Putney
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Image of James A. Forbes
It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.
- James A. Forbes
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Image of Dar Williams
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
- Dar Williams
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Image of Elizabeth Wein
It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE.
- Elizabeth Wein
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Image of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Image of Baruch Spinoza
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
- Baruch Spinoza
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Image of Eddie Vedder
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
- Eddie Vedder
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Image of Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
- Desmond Tutu
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Image of Connie Willis
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.
- Connie Willis
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Image of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When we pray for forgiveness, let us say, "my temper," or "untruthfulness," or "pride," "my selfishness, my cowardice, indolence, jealousy, revenge, impurity." To recognize our sins, we must look them in the face and call them by their right names, however hard. Honesty in confession calls for definiteness in confession.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Image of Gerard Way
Real revenge is making something of yourself.
- Gerard Way
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Image of Richard Kadrey
Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains. Once a man does the things you're talking about, he will never be the same, and he can never go back to who he was before. Worst of all, no matter how many enemies you kill, you are never satisfied. There is always one more who deserves it. When it becomes too easy to kill, it never ends.
- Richard Kadrey
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Image of Ian C. Esslemont
When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten
- Ian C. Esslemont
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Image of Ivan Klíma
Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.
- Ivan Klíma
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Image of John Ford
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
- John Ford
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Image of John Ford
Revenge proves it's own executioner.
- John Ford
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Image of Maximilien Robespierre
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
- Maximilien Robespierre
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Image of Ohtaka Shinobu
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin
- Ohtaka Shinobu
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Image of Robbie Williams
I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well.
- Robbie Williams
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Image of Benazir Bhutto
Democracy is the best revenge.
- Benazir Bhutto
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Image of Hector Hugh Munro
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
- Hector Hugh Munro
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Image of Mike Carey
I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.
- Mike Carey
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Image of Jane Porter
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.
- Jane Porter
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Image of Jane Porter
A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.
- Jane Porter
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Image of Barry Lyga
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
- Barry Lyga
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Image of Ali ibn Abi Talib
The best revenge is to improve yourself.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Image of Shan Sa
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.
- Shan Sa
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Image of Adeline Yen Mah
Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.
- Adeline Yen Mah
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Image of Martha Stout
The reason I want to explain that you're probably never going to get revenge a sociopath and you're also probably not going to redeem this person, is that it is not a project that will ever succeed. At present, if a person does not have a conscience, we know of no way to instill one - not even a little bit. It's not like something you can take off the shelf and put into somebody's brain. It makes me so sad to hear people say, "I think I can see just a little bit of a conscience."
- Martha Stout
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Image of Fumiko Enchi
A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.
- Fumiko Enchi
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Image of Moliere
A woman always has her revenge ready.
- Moliere
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Image of Ricardo Montalban
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
- Ricardo Montalban
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Image of Rahul Dravid
You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride
- Rahul Dravid
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Image of Emily VanCamp
The unfortunate thing, and the tragedy of this show [Revenge], is in exploring the theme of revenge. Absolutely everyone can find peace, at some point or another, but the interesting thing is how you find it, the collateral damage along the way and all the trauma that she indirectly causes all these other people in her circle.
- Emily VanCamp
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Image of Cyrano de Bergerac
Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!
- Cyrano de Bergerac
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Image of Marshall B. Rosenberg
Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, people lose their desire to attack back because they can see the human ignorance leading to these attacks; instead, their goal becomes providing the empathic connection and education that will enable them to transcend their violence and engage in cooperative relationships.
- Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Image of G.A. Henty
I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.
- G.A. Henty
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Image of Marianne Curley
For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.
- Marianne Curley
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Image of Chris Bradford
Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
- Chris Bradford
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Image of Vincent Price
I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.
- Vincent Price
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Image of Ishmael Beah
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.
- Ishmael Beah
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Image of Nobuhiro Watsuki
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji
- Nobuhiro Watsuki
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Image of Frank Beddor
If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy
- Frank Beddor
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Image of Jo Nesbo
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.
- Jo Nesbo
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Image of Jo Nesbo
With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.
- Jo Nesbo
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