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Quotes About Revenge

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge
~ China Mieville
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.
~ Chinese proverb
I wasn't ready to let go of my life. How amazing it seemed to me with its victories, its adventures, its moments of glory. Even the shame that had struck like hot iron, branding revenge into my brain, seemed suddenly precious in its uniqueness. I wanted to live it all again—with more wisdom this time!
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
He'd probably kill us both with the same blow. A little part of my mind said, That's all right. It would be better than living on alone if he killed Ram.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Remember that, little sister: wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The cereal box says, 'Did you hear the one about the foolhardy mouse who clicked on a sleeping bear? (Punch line inside!)' ... The punch line (inside!) says, 'The bear didn't get mad, he got even. He waited until the mouse and his family were all asleep inside their den and then he burst in and opened fire, killing everyone. Sweet revenge!
~ Chris Bachelder
I'd love to see the Iron Jackal's face when he finds out I'm already dead," he said with half a grin. "Now that's irony." "No it ain't, Cap'n. It's just some shit that happened.
~ Chris Wooding
He thought maybe she was having second thoughts. Rightly so, considering what he planned to do to her.
~ Christa Faust
When a woman hates, she will wreck a dozen lives to pay back what she conceives to be some injury.
~ Christina Stead
Your old man sent me anonymous letters himself to make me divorce him." She rippled with he-hes. "I hung on to spite him. I didn't want him. It's my only pleasure left." She laughed.
~ Christina Stead
Did you break into Anthony Mead's home?' 'I couldn't even tell you where that might be. Home Counties are all the one to me.' That was payback for Pine saying London, Los Angeles and Scotland. Really sticking it to them here. 'So you know his house is in the Home Counties.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
A woman broke up with me, and sent me pictures of her and her new boyfriend in bed together. Solution? I sent them to her dad.
~ Christopher Case
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
~ Heinrich Heine
The women of Juarez, and women across the world, do not want to have to take revenge, any more than Procne and Philomela did. What they want is to be able to rely on the modern gods -- the police, the courts, and the media -- for justice.
~ Helen Morales
Father asks me to tell all who have remained loyal to him and those over who they might have influence, that they should not advenge him, for he has forgiven everyone and prays for them all; that they should not themselves seek revenge; that they should remember that the evil there is now is in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil that will conquer evil – only love.
~ Helen Rappaport
She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye.
~ Helen Zahavi
I have felt the muscle pull away from the bone. For a time I was mislead into thinking that I avenge these acts of harm against me. I realized that by living and growing stronger on a diet of scar tissue, I had something better than revenge. I have the best of your bad situation. I am like the roach, the rock, the mountain. I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You'll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.
~ Henry Rollins
Ambition, love of power, covetousness, lasciviousness, pride, anger, and revenge—were all respected.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Vengeance is mine. I will repay.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The Kniaz is a handsome man," said one of her ladies-in-waiting.    "He is handsome and noble," added the Kniahynia, reflecting, "but his hands are awash with blood. The blood of my master, my husband - and a warrior demands revenge! I could love him, if I did not have to hate him with all my heart.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Olha thought that simply murdering her enemies would not be enough to satisfy herself and her people. A true daughter of her time, she was tireless in inventing inhumane tortures for her victims in an effort to see them tortured to death in front of her.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
One of the favorite pastimes of Backstabbers is recounting slights and grievances they've carried for years.
~ Les Parrott
Storing up pain, nurturing your hurt, plotting revenge - all these punish you more than they do the backstabbers.
~ Les Parrott
Now, Mr. Shaughnessy, remember what happened the last time your wife got jealous of your flirting? She exchanged your denture cream for hemorrhoidal ointment.
~ Leslie Kelly