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

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

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands

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.
J. B. Priestley

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.
Tracey Emin

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

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.
Radha Mitchell

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Revenge proves its own executioner.
John Ford

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.
Albert Schweitzer

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