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Quotes About Revenge

The permanent passions of mankind--love, religion, patriotism, humanitarianism, hate, revenge, ambition; the conflict between free will and fate; the rise and fall of empires--these are all great themes, and, if greatly treated, and in accordance with the essentials applicable to all poetry, may produce poetry of the loftiest kind.
~ Alfred Austin
Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
~ Alfred Bester
Vorga, I kill you filthy.
~ Alfred Bester
Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It's not about revenge so much as, like, 'I'm back - now watch this!' It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
~ MF Doom
My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.
~ Jane Elliot
I watched 'Kill Bill,' like, three times.
~ Rita Ora
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
~ Richard Ben-Veniste
We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Revenge isn't a show of strength; it weakens you.
~ Rituparna Sengupta
My plans are to avenge my loss against Volkan Oezdemir and get the UFC title.
~ Jimi Manuwa
I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.
~ Brian Celio
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.
~ Sriram Raghavan
I would not have been interested in doing just a revenge film simply because I have seen so many revenge films right from Clint Eastwood films to Amitabh Bachchan's 'Zanjeer', 'Sholay' and 'Ghayal' and various variants of them.
~ Sriram Raghavan
If you're not catfishing someone for romantic reasons, then it's going to be hard to sympathize and be compassionate with someone who is doing it for revenge, who's doing it for fun and games, who's doing it because they want to be on TV.
~ Max Joseph
Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
~ Patricia Cornwell
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.
~ Tracey Emin
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
~ John Pomfret
Blood strikes back.
~ Rebecca Walker
We have come to pass judgement upon you Tapu Bulu, you destroyed my land, now it is time for us to destroy yours!" exclaimed Glen passionately.
~ Red Smith
mechanism. In their slow evolutionary ascent, proto-humans 'found' in this mechanism a 'tool' for controlling the mimetic escalations of interspecific violence, when imitation (stronger in humans than in animals) diffuses dynamics of reciprocal contention and revenge in a given social group.
~ Rene Girard
It is almost as if the Greeks, at a time when they were about to disappear from history, wished to avenge themselves for their own incomprehension by imposing on a whole section of mankind the limitations of their own mental horizons.
~ Rene Guenon
where the Torah restricts retaliation, Jesus forbids it altogether.
~ Richard B. Hays