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Quotes About Revenge

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Surrounded by them all, she was reminded of the old parental curse—May you have six children just like you. Except that this curse seemed to have gone awry. Miles would have reveled at six children just like himself; he'd have known exactly what to do. Instead, he seemed to have received six children, none in the least like himself, and furthermore, each one different from all the others. As parental revenges went, this was actually much better.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Would it be all right if I threw dishes at my former mother-in-law?
~ Lolly Winston
That motherfucker hurt our coya, you son of a bitch, and if you're going to kill anyone, put the gun to your head first.(less)
~ Lora Leigh
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
~ Loretta Lynn
Now this was the first time I ever dumped a bowl of beans on Doolittle Lynn, but it wouldn't be the last. They became my weapon of choice. If beans was around when I got good and mad, you can bet he'd run.
~ Loretta Lynn
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.
~ Lorrie Moore
You killed Rice Wheeler, he said, the Panhandle gunman. He should have stayed in the Panhandle, I said.
~ Louis L'Amour
You killed Rice Wheeler, he said, the Panhandle gunman. He should have stayed in the Panhandle, I said.
~ Louis L'Amour
Society is not taking revenge. It is simply eliminating someone who refuses to live by the rules.
~ Louis L'Amour
The next time I get a cat, I'll kill him. Then he'll never run away," said Kathy.
~ Louis Sachar
Three days after Sam's death, Miss Katherine shot the sheriff while he was sitting in his chair drinking a cup of coffee. Then she carefully applied a fresh coat of lipstick and gave him the kiss he had asked for. For the next twenty years, Kissin' Kate Barlow was one of the most feared outlaws in all the West.
~ Louis Sachar
How did you make the boys stop calling you Dora? I trashed 'em.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Fire, and deepen Rosamond's detestation by adding another murder to your list of crimes.
~ Louisa May Alcott
General John Cadwalader, who fired a ball through Conway's mouth that came out the back of his head.
~ Ron Chernow
As part of Rockefeller's silent craft and habit of extended premeditation, he never tipped off his adversaries to his plans for revenge, preferring to spring his reprisals on them.
~ Ron Chernow
With his iPod all the way up, nothing in this world can touch him. Just over his pulse is a fresh tattoo- a dotted line and the words -----Cut Here----- Grief is a street he skates down. Hey, donkey's ass! He bides his time, sanding away his fingerprints, wondering how he could get his assailants in one room.
~ Ron Koertge
Fico na frente da televisão para aumentar o meu ódio. Quando minha cólera está diminuindo e eu perco a vontade de cobrar o que me devem eu sento na frente da televisão e em pouco tempo meu ódio volta.
~ Rubem Fonseca
I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
~ Rudyard Kipling
He has oppressed Beetle, M'Turk, and me, privatim et seriatim, one by one, as he could catch us. But now he has insulted Number Five up in the music-room, and in the presence of these - these ossifers of the Ninety-third, wot look like hairdressers. Binjimin, we must make him cry Capivi!' Stalky's reading did not include Browning or Ruskin.
~ Rudyard Kipling
And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
~ Rudyard Kipling
The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The hot wine had filled him. Under the stars he mocked me—therefore I killed him!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If only I can keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge
~ Soren Kierkegaard