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Quotes About Revenge

Achilles is fixed into rage, into the need to fulfill his fate, fixed into having to revenge the death of his friend Patroclus.
~ Adam Nicolson
My dad smelled sort of like mustard, which is probably due to the fact that in the bed I also discovered a thing of Hellmann's. I wanted to grab it and squirt it in his eyes, but I couldn't reach it.
~ Adam Rapp
Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.
~ Adrian McKinty
Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice. I understood
~ Adrian McKinty
CLYTEMNESTRA What ails thee, raising this ado for us? SLAVE I say the dead are come to slay the living.
~ Aeschylus
ESORAIS M' HOS EKDIKA PASKHO!
~ Aeschylus
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
~ Aesop
The weak will sometimes find ways to avenge an insult, even upon the strong.
~ Aesop
Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.
~ Alain de Botton
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
~ Alain de Botton
Even if we find literature the finest of substitutes, infinitely better than anything else yet invented, it still pays to recognise that substitute is what it might primarily be, that writing is in certain ways an act of very polite and artful revenge on a world too busy to listen and that we would never develop such fierce bookish ambitions if we had not first been let down by those we needed so much to rely upon.
~ Alain de Botton
Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.
~ Alan Dean Foster
You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.
~ Alan Moore
Yes. That's why I left the Necromancer Order. It's why I chose to fight alongside the man who'd murdered me and my family. It's why I fought on the same side as the man who murdered … well, you know what I'm referring to, don't you, Skulduggery? It's also why I betrayed Abyssinia. That's not over yet, by the way. The consequences of that partnership? It's not over for you.
~ Derek Landy
A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.
~ Derek Raymond
Who decides what justice is? How does one end this unending spiral of revenge where everyone believes they are right and their opponents are wrong?
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Every victim will, given a chance, turn victimizer.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Vengeance will never take away sorrow. It
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Asshat! You Darth Vadered me!" (Delaney to Rowan)
~ Diana Duncan
I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
That was the end of Grogan... the man who killed my father, raped and murdered my sister, burned my ranch, shot my dog, and stole my Bible!
~ Diane Thomas
She said several times that Malcolm was a fiend who was determined to destroy his children, and that I was the devil incarnate helping him. She hoped we would both rot in hell. (I thought devils and fiends might flourish there, actually.)
~ Dick Francis
Ilude-se com uma gloriosa desforra a longo prazo, acredita possuir ainda uma imensidão de tempo disponível
~ Dino Buzzati
All night long, in his cell, he burned with hatred. It did not matter what he thought, it was how he felt; and alone in the darkness of his cell, with the muttering noises of the tank around him, he felt like murdering the universe.
~ Don Carpenter