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Quotes About Revenge

Duty and prudence alike command, first, that the germ-centres of hatred and revenge should be constantly and vigilantly surveyed and treated in good time, and, secondly, that an adequate organisation should be set up to make sure that the pestilence can be controlled at its earliest beginnings before it spreads and rages throughout the entire earth.
~ Winston S. Churchill
De vreugde van het schrijven. De macht van vereeuwiging. De wraak van een sterfelijke hand.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.
~ Wodehouse
What she seemed to mean was that knowing how much I loved Dylan, she was embarking on a plan to see to it I would not be able to see her anymore. Dylan's feelings wouldn't matter. The loss of her father, whom she loved, wouldn't matter. She would be used to exact revenge.
~ Woody Allen
First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.
~ Christopher Paolini
as 'my drummer'. Charlie got up, showered, shaved, dressed in a Turnbull and Asser shirt, silk tie and three-piece suit, went downstairs, grabbed Mick and punched his lights out. 'It
~ Unknown
There's more than one way to fuck someone over. Do it hard so they never forget or do it quietly so they never know you were there.
~ Unknown
To be honest, I thought of you as an amateur - a spoiled, entitled, runaway princeling bent on revenge who would get caught and then complicate my elegant scheme. I figured the less you knew, the better." "I hate it when you sugarcoat things," Ash said.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Revenge is a powerful motivation, especially for someone with nothing to lose.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I'm beginning to realize that revenge is never as satisfying as you think it will be.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
The pressure of past tragedies drove him forward - the need to escape reminders of his losses, and the desire to be somewhere other than where he'd been. That, and a smoldering desire for revenge.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Han knew from experience that there was nobody more furious than a cheat cheated.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
You wanted him dead. And your wish is my command.
~ Unknown
If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher.
~ CLAMP
Why don't clouds fall, since everything else does? Because gravity is less than the strength of the air that keeps them up there. Clever, right? Yes, but one day they fall as rain. That is my revenge.
~ Clarice Lispector
Speaking for myself, I am only true when I'm alone. As a child, I always feared that I was about to fall off the face of the earth at any minute. Why do the clouds keep afloat when everything else drops to the ground? The explanation is simple: the gravity is less than the force of air that sustains the clouds. Clever, don't you think? Yes, but sooner or later they fall in the form of rain. That is my revenge.
~ Clarice Lispector
I must ask, without knowing whom I should ask, if it is really necessary to love the man who slays me; to ask who among you is slaying me. My life, stronger than myself, replies that it wants revenge at all costs. It warns me that I must struggle like someone drowning, even if I should perish in the end. If it be so, so be it.
~ Clarice Lispector
What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!
~ Clifford Odets
She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a sadist of her.
~ Clive Barker
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
~ Unknown
to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
~ Herman Melville
Are you saying, perhaps, that I am moved by spite, revenge or, even worse, that I am seeking some sort of perverse thrill in cruelty? It seems to me that you don't understand what our work here is about.
~ Unknown
I have been a live girlfriend to twenty one bachelors and a vengeful ex- girlfriend to another three men keen to return to bachelorhood.
~ Hester Browne
Kuroi Sabato! I shall kill you! I shall kill you if I have to sell my very soul to the Devil!
~ Unknown