Revenge Quotes
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Revenge or vengeance consists of retaliation against a person or group in response to perceived wrongdoing. Although many aspects of revenge resemble or echo the concept of making things equal, revenge usually has a more injurious than constructive goal. The vengeful wish to make the other side go through what they went through or make sure they'll never be able to do what they did again. The word Revenge is always considered to a word with grey shades. This word describes the feel of going against the norms of society and committing a wrong deed.
The revenge quotes describe the negative feeling in a person where in he's forced to commit a wrong deed and thereby getting the grey shades over him. The revenge quotes are the ones that actually reveal the most negative aspects of one's life where one is always in a mood to make things equal even if it is done at the cost of getting the most severe punishment. |
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
Don't get mad, get even.
Robert F. Kennedy
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Charlotte Bronte
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Sir Francis Bacon
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
The Talmud
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
Women do most delight in revenge.
Sir Thomas Browne
Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
Lord Byron
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3)
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
Benjamin Franklin
Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
Homer
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Juvenal
Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
John Milton
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
John Milton
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Juvenal
Revenge is profitable.
Edward Gibbon
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.
Homer
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Thomas Moore
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
Juvenal
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
Phaedrus
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
Sir Walter Scott Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
German Proverb
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
Dick Armey
One good act of vengeance deserves another.
John Jefferson
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Earl of Chesterfield
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
Sir Walter Scott
If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
William Shakespeare
All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.
Phaedrus
One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.
Thomas Moore
Revenge is an inhuman word.
Seneca
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
William Shakespeare
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.
Walter Weckler
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Austin O'Malley
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
The Talmud
She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
Ralph McGill
And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
William Shakespeare
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
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