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Quotes About Revenge

You son of a bitch!' 'What? he said, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. 'You were mad.' 'I wasn't talking about the kiss.' He grinned. 'Does that mean I can do it again?
~ Larissa Ione
Now, con said grimly, "I go to kill a werewolf and claim my woman." ~Con
~ Larissa Ione
An axe struck him in the head. Pain screamed through him as shards of bone from his own skull drove into his brain. "Bastard" he snarled as he wheeled around to his attacker, a burly Ramreel with a black snout and glowing red eyes. "You fucked up my Mohawk.
~ Larissa Ione
Revenge is a confession of pain
~ Latin proverb
And for some men, years of swallowed rage, terror, and humiliation concentrated into what Holocaust survivor Jean Améry would call "a seething, purifying thirst for revenge.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Ghost Story (1981) The Getaway (1972) The Godfather (1972)
~ Laura Lippman
Despite the pain and the blood, Roza took in the icy-eyed man's expression of frozen, stony horror and reveled in it, delighted in it. It was delicious, his horror. She wanted to see it up close. She wanted to eat it.
~ Laura Ruby
If not for you or your daughter, then for Nicky? Couldn't you do it for Nicky?' I stop breathing. My mother pales. 'You know what, Mom? You're right. Let me do for Nicky exactly what he did for me.' She wheels and with one savage sweep of her arm, she clears the table and sends everything crashing to the floor.
~ Laura Wiess
She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...
~ Lauren Myracle
Tu ne souhaites pas réellement sa mort ai je pensé en m'étirant sur le siège arrière. Car si elle meurt tu perds tout espoir de la tuer de tes propres mains. Et ça ce serait vraiment dommage.
~ Lauren Weisberger
power over the expedition. It would take Fonseca months, but eventually he would have his revenge on Magellan
~ Laurence Bergreen
On August 11, 1520, Magellan carried out the sentence he had proclaimed for his nemesis, Juan de Cartagena
~ Laurence Bergreen
then with one powerful blow, he severed Quesada's head from his neck.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan ordered a detail to draw and quarter Quesada's body.
~ Laurence Bergreen
King Manuel ordered the harassment of Magellan's relatives who remained in their homeland.
~ Laurence Bergreen
He renounced slaving and vowed to seek revenge (and his fortune) against those who trafficked
~ Laurence Bergreen
Stripped of his command, and having learned nothing from the experience of his failed mutiny, Cartagena grew intensely resentful of his inexperienced replacement. From that moment, he burned with desire for revenge against Magellan, no matter what the cost to the expedition, and as Fonseca's son, Cartagena had power to make great trouble. Of all the perils that Magellan faced on the journey's first leg, the greatest was Cartagena's treachery.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Revenge is a good motivator, but it always disappoints in the end.
~ Cecil Castellucci
Si vendica, e bene, la vita, se qualcuno le ruba il mestiere.
~ Cesare Pavese
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
~ Charles Caleb Colton
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur Autant que la mâchoire)
~ Charles de Leusse