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Quotes About Retaliation

No one sleeps in Hell except as a possible defensive posture in retaliation during yet another punitive presentation of The English Patient.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Give me anger. Flash. Give me vengeance. Flash. Give me total and complete justified retribution. Flash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Then, having finished with his gesture of remorse, he sat down, like any decent man who has been deeply wronged, and planned murder.
~ Clive Barker
for a long time they were the same thing to me, justice and revenge.
~ Colum McCann
she takes no rest from revenge
~ Virgil
Revenge is a confession of pain
~ Latin proverb
Así que, si me ayudas, es solo por temor a represalias. —Le doy la espalda, vuelvo a echarme en la cama, dispuesta a seguir durmiendo, y le resumo en una palabra lo que pienso de él—: Cabrón.
~ Laura Gallego García
your ass is grass...
~ Lauren Myracle
Columbus physically attacked Fonseca's accountant, kicking and assaulting him as a proxy for Fonseca himself.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Revenge is a good motivator, but it always disappoints in the end.
~ Cecil Castellucci
Izzy had the heart of a radical, but she had the experience of a fourteen-year-old living in the suburban Midwest. Which was to say: she cast about for ideas for exacting revenge—egged windows, flaming bags of dog shit—and chose the best thing in her limited repertoire. Three afternoons later, Pearl
~ Celeste Ng
Si vendica, e bene, la vita, se qualcuno le ruba il mestiere.
~ Cesare Pavese
In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows. Although people usually know what they have sown, our national experience of blowback is seldom imagined in such terms because so much of what the managers of the American empire have sown has been kept secret.
~ Chalmers Johnson
If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
~ Charles Barkley
Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
~ Charles Barkley
You fat fuck," I said and jumped up and decked him. I broke his jaw, and they expelled me permanently on the spot. Naturally,
~ Charles Brandt
Riesel had been crusading against the criminal element in labor unions. The night of the radio broadcast, Riesel stepped out of the famous Lindy's restaurant on Broadway near Times Square and was approached on the sidewalk by a goon who threw a cup of acid in his face. Riesel was blinded by the acid's effect on his eyes. It soon became obvious that the attack had been ordered by Hoffa ally and labor racketeer John Dioguardi, aka Johnny Dio.
~ Charles Brandt
Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur Autant que la mâchoire)
~ Charles de Leusse
They never show mercy because mercy was never shown to them
~ Charles Dickens
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The three volumes on the case compiled by Police Captain Vincent Doyle and exhaustive investigations by Captain Wilmott's lifelong friend Captain George Seeth provide further evidence. As far as is known, Doyle and Seeth never met. Neither was even aware of the other's existence. Yet, somewhat astonishingly, both came to the conclusion that Rogers poisoned Captain Wilmott as a deliberate act of retaliation.
~ Gordon Thomas
His favourite ploy was to push his leg round the corner of the table and withdraw it repeatedly just as the cat pawed at it. Oscar was justifiably irritated by this teasing but showed his character by lying in wait for Tristan one night and biting him smartly in the ankle before he could start his tricks.
~ James Herriot
Some people say they believe in karma. But most of them just believe in revenge.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
From this point on I'm going to treat people exactly how they treat me. Some should be glad. Others should be scared.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)