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Quotes About Revenge

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
~ Cat Stevens
He'd left her stranded in front of three hundred wedding guests, wearing a white dress and glass slippers like some deranged Cinderella, while he caught a plane to the Cayman Islands with a knock-kneed stripper named Chrysanthemum Greene and several million dollars embezzled from the Stardust Savings and Loan.
~ Lori Wilde
When someone harms those whom we love, we must do as we must. And I had always loved Frannie.
~ Lorraine Heath
If she made a cake for him, she'd use salt in place of sugar-and lots of it.
~ Lorraine Heath
But you also admitted to her being in the shadows and not having a clear view of him." "What would be his motive?" "Perhaps he saw me kissing Mary." "Killing the man for kissing your betrothed seems a bit drastic." I would, he thought, surprised by the vehement behind the words.
~ Lorraine Heath
Why should I reward his dirty tricks with my lily-white hand?
~ Louis Auchincloss
It's like drinking acid," said Myrna, "and expecting the other person to die." Gamache nodded.
~ Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Gamache knew one thing about hate. It bound you forever to the person you hated. Murder wasn't committed out of hate, it was done as a terrible act of freedom. To finally rid yourself of the burden.
~ Louise Penny
There've been times I've been mad enough to kill, and may have, had I known I would get away with it.' 'What made you that angry?' Clara was astonished. 'Betrayal, always and only betrayal.
~ Louise Penny
This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill.
~ Loung Ung
Whom they have injured they also hate.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.
~ Jodi Picoult
When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. —CHINESE PROVERB
~ Jodi Picoult
I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love—well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
~ Jodi Picoult
I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whather it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
~ Jodi Picoult
Che cosa significa essere diversi nella nostra società? Fino a che punto può arrivare il desiderio di vendetta di una vittima? E soprattutto: che diritto ha, chiunque, di giudicare gli altri?
~ Jodi Picoult
To show compassion would elevate me from the monster he was. To show revenge would prove I'm no better. In the end, by using both, I can only hope they will cancel each other out.
~ Jodi Picoult
Cuando emprendes un viaje de venganza, comienza por cavar dos tumbas: una para tu enemigo y una para ti.
~ Jodi Picoult
Revenge, in theory, throbbed with adrenaline and was clean with conviction. In reality, it was rushing into a house on fire, and forgetting to map out your exit.
~ Jodi Picoult
The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
~ Joe Hill
The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.
~ Unknown
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
~ John Adams
My ex boyfriends facebook status said 'Suicidal and standing on the edge.' ...So I poked him.
~ Unknown