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Quotes About Revenge

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
~ Pierre Corneille
I noticed that in 'The Revenant,' as much as it is a good story of revenge and endurance, there are times that you get to escape with a story like that.
~ Bill Pullman
America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?
~ John Niven
He was ready to argue there was no rational way you could justify the death penalty, except to admit it was absolute revenge. If that, he would say, was the foundation of the criminal justice system, then we had a pretty sick system.
~ Norman Mailer
Olivia Goldsmith
~ made Clinton
They say getting thin is the best revenge. Success if much better.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Knowing that she doesn't love me hurts so much that I'd rather think she was taken against her will, which in turn makes me think of how I want to kill those bastards. Our ancestors used to torture criminals before they executed them—it's in times like these that one truly understands the importance of tradition.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Hate seed in the heart cannot produce a love flower in the life. A sinister thought will produce a sinister harvest. The revenge seed will produce a bloody harvest.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you.
~ Orochimaru
To have Achilles's gratitude was clearly a terminal disease.
~ Orson Scott Card
Time to repay old humiliations, is that it, Bean? 'Of course,' Ender said contemptuously. 'I'm not as close to the floor as you are.
~ Orson Scott Card
This wasn't about killing Bean—that was just a bonus. It was about getting Bean's babies.
~ Orson Scott Card
At the end of the letter he said, Fuck you, you heartless bitch, you rolled up my heart and squeezed it dry. Still, when I recalled him I would always see him waiting for me under the silver high school bleachers with a smile on his face and thirty-two perfect shining white teeth.
~ Colum McCann
Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel
~ Conan Doyle
The ultimate revenge is living well and being happy. Hateful people can't stand happy people. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."-
~ Confucius
You can't just physically beat a man and expect him not to retaliate. Insults, slaps, threats go just so far. You've got to go for the jugular. You've got to finish the job in a clean sweep. What do the French call it? Coup de grace, as believe. I did learn a few things from living with Charlie.
~ Connie May Fowler
What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time limit. While it's never too late for revenge.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And you will never know the depth of your heart until you are presented with the opportunity for revenge. Only then will you know what you are capable of.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Toadvine was four steps above him and when he kicked him he caught him in the throat.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.
~ Cormac McCarthy
That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch!
~ Cornelia Funke
I hope you drop dead!" She screamed as Basta hauled her out of the room. "I hope you burn to death! I hope you suffocate in your own smoke!" Basta laughed as he closed the door. "Just listen to this little wildcat!" He said. "I think I'll have to watch my step with you around!
~ Cornelia Funke
No, it wasn't quite true that John had no conscience at all. Everyone had one. But there were many voices in his head that had an easier time reaching him: his ambition, his desire for fame and success—and for revenge.
~ Cornelia Funke
I was the Count of Monte Cristo, who would one day return from the terrible prison island to take revenge on all those who had sent him there. I was Napoléon, banished to die a lonely death on Saint Helena. I was Harry, locked up under the Dursleys' staircase.
~ Cornelia Funke