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Quotes About Revenge

While a steadily-nursed religio-political conviction about Khalsa Raj, and a psychological yearning for revenge, motivated the Sikhs, Punjab's Muslim chiefs, who had accepted the Mughals, possessed no comparable impetus.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Nursing a powerful drive, a daring leader who believed in God and his own destiny now bonded—through shared danger, a common language, and the breaking of caste barriers—with a Singh following where a majority, scholars tell us, were Jat clans who equated honour with revenge.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
In terms of religious beliefs, Pashtuns are Sunni Muslims and follow a nonwritten ethical code called Pashtunwali. Its main principles include Melmastia (hospitality and respect for all visitors regardless of race, religion, nationality, or financial status), Nanawatai (offering asylum or protection from one's enemies), Badal (the practice of taking revenge against a wrongdoer), and Turah (bravery).
~ Ralph Pezzullo
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
~ Ralph Steadman
Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.
~ Ramon Bautista
This morning I put ground glass in my wife's pancakes.
~ Randy Chandler
Iroquois had shed the blood of their brothers; the League of the Six Nations had been torn apart by the white man's war. Iroquois warriors were no longer observers to the contest, nor incidental participants. Senecas and Oneidas alike suddenly embraced the war as their own and sought revenge for their losses.
~ Ray Raphael
Once they had survived the winter and returned to the warpath, these Indians would not simply be fighting for the Crown—now, they had good reasons of their own to seek revenge against the American patriots.
~ Ray Raphael
Why should DMK align with Congress after blaming the Congress of taking revenge on it for the 2G scam, which caused the exchequer a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Why should Congress take revenge? Does that mean the Congress did not get its due share from the DMK?
~ J. Jayalalithaa
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
~ Martin Freeman
Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may be a natural part of population dynamics - not only are more people getting far older than ever before, but they are older for longer than they are young.
~ Michael Wolff
revenge is a dish best served cold. This is a mistake; you must never lose the heat of rage that drives you to revenge.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Often you'll hear it said that revenge is a dish best served cold. This is a mistake; you must never lose the heat of rage that drives you to revenge.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Of any mortal on this world, Tinuva was foremost on Bovai's list of those who must die at his hands. His very existence was an affront to Bovai, a stain on the honour of his family and clan.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Protector was one face of their power, but destroyer was still the other face. And neither one put your fate in their hands. They protected what was theirs, to protect or destroy and sometimes the plot was about his grief that he'd failed to protect or his revenge against other men and sometimes he'd destroyed her himself. And the story was still about him.
~ Rebecca Solnit
We'll all be glad to see you die. No one's going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I'll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe we all will." It
~ Richard Bachman
It's easy to blame, easy to want revenge. But when you look at things closely, you start to see that every event is locked onto every other event; that sometimes things happen just because they happen. None of us like to think that's so, because then we can never strike out at someone to ease the pain; we have to find another way, and none of the other ways are so simple, or so satisfying.
~ Richard Bachman
One small revenge might be to die and show no signs of having died.
~ Julian Barnes
A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, You used trickery. Yes, I did, he admitted. Are you angry with me? She laughed again. I don't get angry. I get even. Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.
~ Julie Garwood
Judith took a deep breath. Aye, you captured Iain's wife, she said again. But he married your daughter.
~ Julie Garwood
He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.
~ Julie Garwood
Why? Why did you do this to me? He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too. That's right, He can't take the chance. I didn't tell you about it...why? He repeated on a sob? Why did you- You wouldn't take me to New York His mouth dropped open NEW YORK? he shouted. You did all this because I wouldn't take, you to New York!
~ Julie Garwood
Don't you want to know what happened?" Jack asked Alec as he tilted his head toward the man he'd killed. "I figured he didn't get your order right.
~ Julie Garwood
I don't get angry. I get even.
~ Julie Garwood