Revenge Quotes

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.

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.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

The best revenge in the world is success.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

Success is the sweetest revenge.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.