Revenge Quotes - page 3

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance. View quote
Maeve Binchy
Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. View quote
Robert Jordan
Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man. View quote
Cesare Pavese
A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success. View quote
Kate Moss
There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said "we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge.” It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability. View quote
Judith Butler
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. View quote
Eddie Vedder
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius. (Cyril Connolly)
My mother always said democracy is the best revenge. View quote
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. View quote
Meir Kahane
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place. View quote
Meir Kahane
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry. View quote
Camille Paglia
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Revenge is for dreams...never for reality. View quote
Alfred Bester
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. View quote
Saki
Forgiveness is better than revenge. View quote
Pittacus of Mytilene
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge.... And now revenge was all that life had left for him. (Vernor Vinge)
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day...Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody. View quote
Mike Patton
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. View quote
George Orwell
While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race. View quote
Bertrand Russell