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Quotes About Revenge

My dear sister, it is my belief that it is actually one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love. The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
How could you do such a thing to your husband?" Toni looked at Melisande with shocked eyes. "Quite simply because he bored me. He agreed with everything I ever said, and not once in our four years together did he give me a bruise. He knelt to me when I wanted him to dominate me. He let me make a fool of him with a dozen men, but Luque was, on that point, a perfect Spaniard. He turned his back on me and so I stabbed him!
~ Violet Winspear
If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.
~ Unknown
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
That's very kind of you," she said bitterly, for she no longer believed in kindness. "And you're willing to do this...why? Because you're fond of helping others?" "I'm fond of revenge," the dragon answered.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
I saw houses burned by the Mujahadeen, as well as disfigured bodies of prisoners they'd taken. But I saw other things too: villages destroyed by our shelling and bodies of women, killed by mistake. When you shoot at every rustling in the bushes, there's no time to think about who's there. But for an Afghan, it didn't matter if his wife had been killed intentionally or accidentally. He went into the mountains to see revenge.
~ Unknown
Next time you want to get back at another man, stab him in the heart. Don't piss in his rice.
~ Unknown
Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return
~ W. H. Auden
I am going to kill your father," Gaston said. "May I hold him down?" "Will it be necessary?" he asked. "Non, but I feel I will garner great satisfaction in being a participant.
~ Unknown
On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.
~ Larry Correia
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
~ Seneca the Younger
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
~ John Milton
Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol.
~ Christopher Titus
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
~ William Wycherley
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
~ Ovid
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
~ William Shakespeare
If I know anything about periodontists, she's thought of strangling you more than once. In your sleep.
~ Philip Roth
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counter-culture of ordinary pilgrims who insist on living a different way. We can make the world stop and think before pulling a trigger, or exacting revenge, or neglecting the vulnerable, or practising euthanasia on those it deems 'devoid of value'.
~ Philip Yancey
There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.
~ Philip Yancey
the descendants of today's raped and mutilated victims will arise to seek vengeance on the avengers.
~ Philip Yancey
Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.
~ Philip Yancey
When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.
~ Philippa Gregory
He may make me feel like a fool, and like a woman who can do nothing, but what I can do I will. In my jewellery box is a dark locket of black tarnished silver and inside it locked in the darkness, I have his name: Richard Neville and that of George, Duke of Clarence, written in my blood on a piece of paper from the corner of my father's last letter. These are my enemies, I have cursed them. I will see them dead at my feet.
~ Philippa Gregory