Revenge Quotes

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
Eddie Vedder

Best, Yourself, Live

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Austin O'Malley

Often, Dog, Bit

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

Funny, Children, Nothing

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

Passion, Sometimes, Themselves

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

Strong, Human, Soul

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Thomas Fuller

Men, Kindness, Injuries

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

Death, Sleep, Jealous

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.
Ivana Trump

Best, Hair, Gorgeous

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.
Desmond Tutu

Angry, Before, Young

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.
Marquis de Sade

Life, Strength, Ambition

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

Green, Wounds, Heal

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon

Gratitude, Expensive, Profitable

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

Age, Worship, Naked

Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem

Die, Follow, Advance

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

Food, End, Despair

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.
Jeremy Taylor

Him, Violence, Break

Looking good is the best revenge.
Ivana Trump

Good, Best, Looking

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

Once, Sweet, Victim

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

Violence, Everyday, Almost

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin

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.
Sylvester Stallone

Makes, Action, Based

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

Peace, True, Violence

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art, Means, Sensual

Revenge doesn't stop.
Daniel Craig

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.
Margaret Cho

Friends, After, Child

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

Hatred, Either, Disaster

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

Love, Peace, Become

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

Give, Energy, Hatred

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag

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.
Amy Adams

Great, Forget, Hard

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