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Quotes About Revenge

Well, they better get used to it. It's payback for what they did to England back in the 1890s.
~ Eric Flint
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
~ Eric Hoffer
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Adams
~ Eric Metaxas
He who seeks revenge should first dig two graves.
~ Eric Meyer
Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.
~ Erica Jong
To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds, feelings of revenge, misunderstandings, and frictions. It is the surest guarantee for perpetual mass wars.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Just as she had promised to Reedshine, Mapleshade's desire for vengeance would never sleep.
~ Erin Hunter
Cruel, calculating, and deadly, Scourge murdered Tigerstar with one blow.
~ Erin Hunter
Pleasure bubbled in Ashfur's chest. I'm not cruel, he told himself. This was all Squirrelflight's fault. She drove me to this. I only wanted the Clans to see what hypocrites they are.
~ Erin Hunter
Hollyleaf sprang on him, twisted his head to one side, sank her teeth into his fur and skin, telling herself over and over: This is the only way! Ashfur dropped to his belly and Hollyleaf jumped back as he rolled into the stream. She washed the blood from her paws, letting the cold water chill her legs, her flanks, all the way to her heart.
~ Erin Hunter
impostor Ashfur
~ Erin Hunter
Your father killed Firestar in the Dark Forest. You must be so proud of him!
~ Erin Hunter
Scourge is dead!
~ Erin Hunter
I will never forget this," she hissed, slowly turning to glare at each one of her Clanmates. "You have betrayed me and my kits. You will live to regret this day forever, ThunderClan, and that is a promise.
~ Erin Hunter
I would kill Fireheart!
~ Erin Hunter
Ashfur was alive, and he'd taken Squirrelflight to a place where only the dead could reach her.
~ Erin Hunter
This warrior will not stop until every Clan cat has paid for what he believes was stolen from him when he was alive.
~ Erin Hunter
I'm going. But I'll be back; you can be sure of that. I'll be revenged on you all!" He padded unevenly away from the Highrock. As he drew close to Fireheart he paused, drawing his lips back in a snarl. "And as for you . . ." he hissed. "Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crow-food.
~ Erin Hunter
Punishments hereafter are suffer'd by one's self; and the world takes no cognizance whether this God has reveng'd 'em or not, 'tis done so secretly, and deferr'd so long.
~ behn aphra ii
I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
~ Bela Lugosi
Ty wanted to crack Gerard Butler's head against a brick wall.
~ Bella Andre
to this day, two trials later, Betty still frequently speaks of Dan Broderick, and sometimes Linda, as if they were still alive and well and tormenting her. "He's such a shit!" she exploded one day, nearly fifteen months later, after reciting some past example of his sins against her. "I'd like to kill him!" "But, Betty," her listener replied, "you did." Silence. Pause. Then a small, confused laugh. "Yeah, well … but I didn't get revenge ... he didn't suffer enough.
~ Bella Stumbo
she no longer even spoke of him as her former husband. Now he was "the cuntsucker," the new woman in his life was "the cunt," and together they had "fucked me".
~ Bella Stumbo
Stephanopoulos was waiting for me inside. She was a short, terrifying woman whose legendary capacity for revenge had earned her the title of the lesbian officer least likely to have a flippant remark made about her sexual orientation. She was stocky, and had a square face that wasn't helped by a Sheena Easton flat-top that you might have called ironic postmodern dyke chic, but only if you really craved suffering.
~ Ben Aaronovitch