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Quotes About Revenge

If dat wuz mah wife, said Walter Thomas, Ah'd kill her cemetery dead.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The widow employed her woman's malice to devise a system of covert persecution.
~ Honore de Balzac
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
~ Honore de Balzac
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
~ Hosea Ballou
Now was the moment for the Jews to turn the tables. To repay not just the Nazis, but all the centuries of persecution. Perhaps the time had finally come for Jewish soldiers to unleash all restraints.
~ Unknown
Deutschland Kaput! Kein Reich, Kein Volk, Kein Führer! Die Juden Kommen!" Trucks veered out of line to smash into men bicycling on the other side of the road. At night, soldiers looking for revenge sneaked into villages, assaulting women, burning houses.
~ Unknown
All thoughts of revenge are born of the pain of helplessness. 'I suffer' becomes 'You will suffer'. And let us not lie: Vengeance is invigorating. It focuses and enlivens us, and it quashes grief because it turns the emotion outward. In grief we go to pieces. In revenge we come together as a single pointed weapon aimed at a target. However destructive in the long run, it serves a useful purpose for a time.
~ Howell Raines
There's plenty of symmetry in revenge, but no virtue.
~ Hugh Mackay
Then the old man said something that set the ground for the change that would occur in Ashraf s life: 'Don't you want to take revenge?
~ Unknown
Maybe you'd best mention Steele and Edwards to your boss.' 'Why?' 'So he can pull them in for questioning, have a bit of fun with them.' 'You think I'd be that vindictive?' 'If not, I didn't teach you much.
~ Ian Rankin
Before I'd touch a square bitch's slit, I'd suck a thousand clappy pricks and swim through liquid shit, They got green puke between their rotten toes, And snot runs from their funky nose, I hope square bitches become syphilitic wrecks, I hope they fall through their own assholes and break their motherfucking necks.
~ Iceberg Slim
Remember that women are revengeful and do all in their power to wreck a man when they separate from him and the only way to win is for the man to become successful.
~ Unknown
With one vicious kick to his head, Dom
~ Unknown
The skinwalkers are regarded as selfish, greedy, and untrustworthy," Benyshek says. "If the Navajo knew someone to be a skinwalker, they would probably kill him, not ask for his help with the Utes. Besides, even if he was asked, the skinwalker would be unlikely to help the Navajo get revenge, since his motives are entirely evil and self-serving. From the Navajo perspective, this story doesn't make sense.
~ Unknown
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
~ Confucius
He wanted his enemies proud and strong, so that he could cast them further down in his vengeance.
~ Conn Iggulden
Vengeance is a fine thing, but forgiveness can be just as cruel.
~ Conn Iggulden
They are the great tribe," Temujin replied, almost to himself. His voice was so quiet that Kachiun had to strain to hear. "I will give them a family again. I will bring them in and I will make them hard and I will send them against those who killed our father. I will write the name of Yesugei in Tartar blood and, when we are strong, I will come back from the north and scatter the Wolves in the snow.
~ Conn Iggulden
Unaware of them all, Temujin began to chant words he had not heard since old Chagatai had whispered them on a frozen night long before. The shaman's chant spoke of loss and revenge, of winter, ice, and blood. He did not have to struggle to recall the words; they were ready on his tongue as if he had always known them.
~ Conn Iggulden
You will revenge my father's death and we will be one tribe across the face of the plains, one people. As it should always have been. Let the Tartars fear us then. Let the Chin fear us.
~ Conn Iggulden
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.
~ Connie Willis
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
~ Cornelius Vanderbilt
And the blood remembers what the heart has never learned. The approach to kill. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")
~ Cornell Woolrich
She had said: 'You could not hate anyone that much -' She was mistaken. What did she know? She felt so good right now, this must be hate, what else could it be? ("Mind Over Murder")
~ Cornell Woolrich