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Quotes About Revenge

You threatened to tell his girlfriend he'd been involved with you? (Hunter) No, I threatened to tell Brittany he made a pass at me if he didn't help. He's a slimeball I wouldn't let touch my dead philodendron. (Abbie)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last, laughs longest and I intend to belly roll tonight.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?' 'That's not good, that's triumph
~ Sherwood Smith
He mounted behind me and we started off, while I indulged myself with the image of grabbing that stick and conking him right across his smiling face.
~ Sherwood Smith
But can love born of revenge avoid turning into cruel sport?
~ Shintar? Ishihara
I wished they were all dead and I was walking on their bodies.
~ Shirley Jackson
I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die." Constance stirred, and the leaves rustled. "The way you did before?" she asked. It had never been spoken of between us, not once in six years. "Yes," I said after a minute, "the way I did before.
~ Shirley Jackson
Ghosts are real, this much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime. But there are others...others that hold on to an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those...they never go away.
~ Shirley Jackson
Second, I wish all my enemies would burst from the bellyful your last letter gave me.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action
~ Simon Scarrow
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The monologue is her form of revenge. FLAUBERT
~ Simone de Beauvoir
A gyilkosság bosszú azért, hogy halandók vagyunk.
~ Simone Weil
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come—it will come, if his prayer is heard—a terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.
~ Solomon Northup
Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.
~ Sophie Kinsella
He even said you once threw al your husband's clothes onto the street and invited the neighbors to help themselves! says Ellen with a bright laugh. He's got such an imagination! My face flames. Damn. I thought he was asleep when I did that.
~ Sophie Kinsella
They see you and me: they know my pain's a fact, my revenge is empty breath.
~ Sophocles
And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.
~ Sophocles
Fate will never punish a man for returning harm first done to him. Deceit matched by deceit, the tables turned: treachery pays you back in pain, not kindness.
~ Sophocles
you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
~ Jane Smiley
I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
~ George Orwell, Why I Write
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.
~ Tim O'Brien
My life is nothing more than bad timing separated by unimaginable moments of tragedy. I'd reconciled my pain with the promise of revenge ... until her.
~ Jewel E. Ann, Scarlet Stone