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Quotes About Revenge

A woman's ne'er so ruined but she can Revenge herself on her undoer, Man.
~ Daniel Defoe
One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them.
~ Daniel Handler
The Americans even exacted their revenge for Pearl Harbor in April 1943, when cryptanalysts learned that Admiral Yamamoto, who had planned the deadly attack, was due to make a visit to the island of Bougainville, near New Guinea. American fighters, waiting in ambush, came out of the clouds and sent the admiral down in flames to his death in the jungle below.
~ Daniel Yergin
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
~ Marcus Aurelius
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
~ Alexander Pope
Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
~ Dean Koontz
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
~ Heraclitus
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
~ Benjamin Franklin
La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid
~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge
~ John Locke
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.
~ David Williamson
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
~ Cullen Hightower
Your ambition has cost you dear, sir," Hal said, trying to keep a rein on his fury. In victory a true warrior must show forbearance, his father had once said. He must not give in to the base instinct for revenge.
~ Wilbur Smith
Sting the mamba with his own venom, pull down the lion with his own claws, deceive the clever chacma baboon with his own trickery.
~ Wilbur Smith
I started to my feet as suddenly as if he had struck me. If I had been a man, I would have knocked him down on the threshold of his own door, and have left his house, never on any earthly consideration to enter it again. But I was only a woman - and I loved his wife so dearly!
~ Wilkie Collins
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully."88 "Minds are conquered not by arms but by greatness of soul."89
~ Will Durant
A dead body revenges not injuries.
~ William Blake
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
~ William Congreve
all writing worth reading comes, like suicide, from outrage or revenge
~ William Gaddis
While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. Down went the man in black. You can die too for all I care, she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from afar, weak and warm and familiar. As...you...wish...
~ William Goldman
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
~ William Goldman
I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
~ William Goldman
Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.
~ William Goldman