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Quotes About Revenge

'Sonchiriya' speaks of the consequences of societal bias and the bloody consequences of revenge when human lives become casualty.
~ Bhumi Pednekar
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
~ Samuel Johnson
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
~ Sacha Guitry
God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.
~ Jim Norton
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.
~ Jean-Paul Marat
Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
~ Democritus
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.
~ Vincent Price
Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.
~ Vladimir Makarov
There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.
~ Nelson Mandela
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
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
~ Orson Scott Card
Man is the hardest animal to kill. If he gets away he will come back to kill you.
~ Salvatore Maranzano
Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.
~ Akhenaton
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
~ Quintus Ennius
Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
~ Neal Stephenson
Well, land sakes! Hiro says. Lookee here! He whips his blade sideways, cutting off both of the businessman's forearms, causing the sword to clatter onto the floor. Better fire up the ol' barbeque, Jemima! Hiro continues, whipping the sword around sideways, cutting the businessman's body in half just above the navel. Then he leans down so he's looking right into the businessman's face. Didn't anyone tell you, he says, losing the dialect, that I was a hacker? Then he hacks the guy's head off.
~ Neal Stephenson
On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They are profit, revenge, jealousy, concealment of a crime, avoidance of humiliation or disgrace, and homicidal mania.
~ Nelson DeMille
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.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli