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Quotes About Revenge

If looks could kill, she'd be a dead woman.
~ Leslie Meier
I've waited a long time for this," Penny said. "Then this is going to be kind of an anticlimax," Alice said, and she punched him in the face. Boom! Oh my God. It was beautiful, just like in a movie: straight from the shoulder, feet planted, hips rolled, follow-through, the works. Penny never saw it coming.
~ Lev Grossman
You hate yourself so much, you'll hurt anybody who loves you. That's it, isn't it? Just to get even with them for loving you.
~ Lev Grossman
And now we are going to put our Jimmy Choo so far up your ass, your going to taste next season.
~ Lev Grossman
Hey—Penny, is it?" Plum said. "That ought to pay for Quentin's library fines, don't you think? Or Alice could just punch you again, it's all good." But
~ Lev Grossman
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
~ Lewis Mumford
Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'
~ Richard Corliss
Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.
~ Burna Boy
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger
We must share his truth—to change our world. To make it a place filled with love rather than hate. With peace, rather than war. With mercy, rather than revenge. With holiness, rather than evil.
~ Janette Oke
Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!
~ Janny Wurts
The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for theirs.
~ Jared Diamond
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
~ Jasper Fforde
You killed my pappy, said the youth, and my pappy's pappy. And his pappy's pappy. And my brothers Jethro, Hank, Hoss, Red, Peregrine, Marsh, Junior, Dizzy, Luke, Peregrine, George and all the others. I'm callin' you out, lawman.
~ Jasper Fforde
Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box with a grieving family outside, or inside a wooden box under six foot of soil with family wondering where you were. The former was if they didn't hold a grudge.
~ Jasper Fforde
Not fair! Okay, what's the record? How many times? If you can count them, he didn't drop you out. Nadine groaned, shuddered, grinned. 'Bitch.
~ Unknown
In order for ethnology to live, its object must die; by dying, the object takes its revenge for being 'discovered' and with its death defies the science that wants to grasp it.
~ Jean Baudrillard
That an obscure Filipino computer-user can spread confusion through the global computer networks by launching the 'I love you' virus is possible only because the computer loves us and, feeling abandoned, like Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, takes its revenge by suiciding the network.
~ Jean Baudrillard
But it's tempting, isn't it, to give somebody like Olympia or Fenleigh a taste of their own medicine? To get even?' I agree it's tempting. *Really* tempting. But it doesn't solve anything. It just perpetuates the problem by making us as bad as them. And we don't need any more of them, do we?
~ Jean Ferris
She was a shadow, kept alive by a flame of hatred for somebody who had long ago forgotten all about her.
~ Jean Rhys
I understand where you're coming from. I know it isn't just a question of revenge. It's the feeling there are some things you can't let pass. If you did, you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.
~ Jeanette Winterson