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Quotes About Revenge

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
~ John McCarthy
As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as ignorant as before, they are driven towards all women again and again: in childish hope that somehow the next time they will find the treasure, and then the equally childish desire for revenge since it cannot be found, that knife in the unfathomable entrails; and they grow full of hatred.
~ John McGahern
She is venomous like this because she hurts.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
This is what I will do from now; I will hurt you.
~ Elise Valmorbida
Flushie means to bark the next time he sees you in revenge for what you say of him.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Must do this thing in any case: wilt thou trust thy vengeance to thine Elf-Knight, love?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sebastien was here for revenge, though he could pretty it up with Justice's blindfold if he cared to play the hypocrite. The self-absorbed machinations of Duke Richard and Governor Penfold had led to the destruction of a friend. Sebastien…was not always of a forgiving nature.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I'm not going to like you," I told her. "Your friends killed my friends. There's no payback for a debt as big as the one you owe me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Of course I love him. I made him. And he came back through history to unmake me. You don't get to fall out of love with the Devil.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Something terrible had happened in his life to send him back to her looking for revenge. He believed she had been unlucky for him and was to be blamed for some calamity, some failure or loss. But he didn't want to tell her about it; he just wanted her to suffer and be reduced, in his imagination and her own. There was no point in understanding any of this if she couldn't see a way through it.
~ Elizabeth Knox
I indicated to Karl slumped on the stool next to Clare at the bar. The fucking jerk didn't deserve a free lap dance, but it was the only way to get him away from Clare without ripping out his jugular.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever.
~ Elizabeth Rudnick
softly, her voice cracking with emotion. "I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever." She paused, wiping a tear. "But I swear, no harm will come to you as long as I live…and not a day shall pass that I won't miss your smile.…
~ Elizabeth Rudnick
I have found Ray's new girl. I have found the new me. I think about her all the way home, how she will cry and scream and plead just like I did. It makes me smile. Everyone on the bus who sees me smile looks away. They see that I am all wrong, that my smile means someone else's pain, but no one says anything.
~ Elizabeth Scott
My God, she was right. 'You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.
~ Elizabeth Sims
You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.
~ Elizabeth Sims
Within weeks of Trajan's death the senate was coerced into agreeing to the summary execution of four alleged plotters against Hadrian's life. Neither he nor the senate ever forgot it, and the senate never forgave him. The deaths also appeared to contradict the new emperor's own stated intentions for his reign.
~ Elizabeth Speller
Revenge is an idiot's game.
~ Arthur Morgan
You knew what I wanted." "And you knew what I wanted." "Yeah, to make yourself feel pretty at someone's agony. Fuck you.
~ Arthur Nersesian
God bears long with the wicked notwithstanding the multitude of their sin, and shall we desire to be revenged because of a single injury?
~ Arthur W. Pink
Sometimes silence is the best revenge. Mystery and guesswork kills!
~ Ashima
No, I will drag you to the Thames and throw you in. Let the watermen fish you out. They will if you offer them enough coin." He swallowed. "You are mad enough to do it." "I am. If I discover that you have spoken to her of this matter in any way, I advise you to dress in the suit you most wish to ruin.
~ Ashley Gardner
What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study of revenge, immortal hate. And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
~ August Kubizek
The people who hired me have been shot. The people who shot them have been shot.
~ Austin Grossman