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Quotes About Revenge

I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'
~ Doug Harvey
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.
~ Aeschylus
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
~ John Grisham
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
~ William Shakespeare
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin
~ Shinobu Ohtaka
Star Wars Episode Three (And One Quarter): Revenge Of The Hicks
~ Ron White
I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.
~ Gaspar Noe
In war personal revenge maintains its silence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.
~ Jay Roach
It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
~ Sybille Bedford
I'm tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.
~ Sally Green, Half Lost
Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.
~ Raheel Farooq
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.
~ Terry Pratchett
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
th' unconquerable will, / And study of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?
~ John Milton, Paradise Lost
I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.
~ Archilochus
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
~ Alanis Morissette
Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt.
~ T.J. Stiles
Blow after blow, some bloody, others a resounding shock to muscle and bone, he felt Robert's fervor until, at last, his misbegotten brother tired and all that remained was for Christian to put his weight and height and strength behind him—to move from sword play to sword lust that he might forever end Robert's treachery and depravity.
~ Tamara Leigh
Dennis killed me!
~ Tami Hoag
Lexie said she was planning to, and I'm quoting, 'kick him in the bollocks so hard he'd have to stick his hand down his throat if he wanted a wank.
~ Tana French
So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.
~ Taylor Swift
If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.
~ Taylor Swift