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Quotes About Revenge

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.
~ Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
~ John Milton
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
~ John Milton
The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'dThe mother of mankind.
~ John Milton
Which if not victory is yet revenge.
~ John Milton
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
~ John Milton
Bing: You're a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn't go your way, anything that you can't have you destroy.
~ John O'Hara
I have no proof of this, but I think the decibel was invented in a bar, late one night, by a committee of drunken electrical engineers who wanted to take revenge on the world for their total lack of dancing partners.
~ John Powell
You know what can make a person possessed, Sylvie? It's not Satan or Lucifer or any of that nonsense. Do you know what it is? . . . Love and hate. Greed. Revenge. Pride. Those things...
~ John Searles
Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue!
~ John Webster
Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!
~ John Wilkes Booth
Only so few years ago,' Josella said reflectively, 'people were wailing about the way those bungalows were destroying the countryside. Now look at them.' 'The countryside is having its revenge, all right,' I said.
~ John Wyndham
May your balls rot like fruit in the sun, and your manhood wither at the root!
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE...
~ Elizabeth Wein
These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice , Rose Justice?
~ Elizabeth Wein
Unlike your mother," she said, exhaling, "I told the culprit immediately. I thought at the very least he would visit me in the hospital after it was all done, but the son of a bitch sent me a get well card. Can you imagine? Serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
~ Ellen Meister
The shots left a hard ringing sound within the closeness of the brick walls. Terry held the pistol at arm's length on a level with his eyes--the Russian Tokarev resembling an old-model Colt .45, big and heavy--and made the sign of the cross with it over the dead. He said, "Rest in peace, motherfuckers," turned, and walked out of the beer lady's house to wait at the side of the road.
~ Elmore Leonard
I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.
~ Eloise McGraw
The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt.
~ Elvis Costello
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
~ Emil Cioran
De dou? mii de ani Iisus se r?zbun? pe noi pentru c? nu a murit pe o canapea.
~ Emil Cioran
Å¢i-a f?cut cineva r?u? DospeÅŸte ura-n tine, r?suceÅŸte-Å£i amarul tainic, frige-Å£i vinele clocotitoare. În nopÅ£i, cînd te cuprinde liniÅŸtea vast?, nu c?dea-n uitarea destructiv? a meditaÅ£iei - arde-Å£i cu durere ÅŸi furie t?r?g?narea c?rnii, înfige-Å£i veninul n?praznic în m?runtaiele duÅŸmanului. Cum ai prelungi altfel vieÅ£uirea searb?d??
~ Emil Cioran
S? ne îndoim de cei care care întorc spatele iubirii,ambiÅ£iei,societ??ii.AceÅŸtia se vor r?zbuna pentru motivul de a fi renunÅ£at la toate acestea.Istoria ideilor e istoria rachiunei singuraticului.
~ Emil Cioran
Better than anyone I am able to forgive on the spot. My desire for revenge comes late, too late, when memory of the offense is fading and when, the incitation to action having become virtually nonexistent, I have only one recourse: to deplore my 'good feelings'.
~ Emil M. Cioran