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Quotes About Revenge

She decided she would find out all she could about Bettina then kill off a character just like her in her next book. The death would be grisly, she promised herself. Slow and painful.
~ Susan Mallery
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
~ Susan Sontag
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
~ Susan Sontag
interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
~ Susan Sontag
In place of the youngster he'd once been was an angry, cynical young man made dangerous by the fact that he had nothing more to lose. In destroying an innocent boy, the Germans had unwittingly created their own worst enemy.
~ Susan Wiggs
Okay.' She could tell the anger was still on him, and she was glad. It made her feel slightly compensated for his treachery. When a short time later
~ Josephine Cox
Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.
~ Josephine Humphreys
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~ Josh Billings
They say you have to watch out for a woman scorned . Let me tell you, a woman in mourning can be just as deadly.
~ Josie Brown
She should send him a little note, something fun, not too didactic: A HEART ATTACK IS GOD'S REVENGE FOR EATING HIS LITTLE FRIENDS.
~ Joy Williams
The best revenge is living well without you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates, ed.
Si no puedes salvarlos, al menos podrás vengarlos
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
I'm not talking about killing Cobblepot and Scarecrow or Clayface. Not Riddler or Dent... I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you.
~ Judd Winick
Like revenge, the fantasy of forgiveness often becomes a cruel torture, because it remains out of reach for most ordinary human beings. Folk wisdom recognizes that to forgive is divine. And even divine forgiveness, in most religious systems, is not unconditional. True forgiveness cannot be granted until the perpetrator has sought and earned it through confession, repentance, and restitution.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
What happens, the Stoics think, is that, being in an emotional state, she follows the reasons which go with that state: she seeks revenge because that is how angry people think. But there is no real division within Medea's self. She oscillates between different decisions as a whole; there is no inner battle of parts of her.
~ Julia Annas
and a cat who apparently wished him dead
~ Julia London
And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.
~ Julia Quinn
you may tell your husband that if he so much as touches a hair on my fiancés head, I shall personally see to it that his liver is extracted through his mouth.
~ Julia Quinn
I hope that bite becomes infected," Poppy said in a malevolent growl. "I hope your arm turns black and falls off. I hope your bollocks turn gree—" "Poppy!" Andrew barked.
~ Julia Quinn
Pezzo di merda! Vorrei solo che avessi sofferto di più! Hai avuto la fine che meritavi! Spero che bru- (Piece of shit! I only wished you'd suffered more! You met the fate you deserved!
~ Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Show him what it means to cross the Assassins!
~ Ezio Auditore da Firenze
According to Francis, Narkis and Zoltar have been plotting against their dad." "He did name his boys Narkis and Zoltar." "Good point. I'd have shot him too.
~ Faith Hunter
want revenge. I want power. I want money. I want to be loved and not love in return.
~ Fay Weldon
She was pretty pissed at him." "Goddam fucking people," Decker muttered. "Stupid bitch. She looks the other way while he's out raping and beating up other women, but he kicks her precious poodle, and all of a sudden she decides he's a menace to society.
~ Faye Kellerman