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Quotes About Revenge

Aquí se arrastran venganzas casadas desde hace generaciones: pasan de padres a hijos, de hijos a nietos, van cayendo los hermanos.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Entonces descubrí lo que no sabía, que estaba infinitamente cansado, que me importaba un carajo el honor, que me daba lo mismo la impunidad que el castigo, y que la venganza era demasiada carga para mis años.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Melian, Prince of Cornwall, was killed by his brother Rainald, who also cut off the right hand and left foot of his son, for no-one with a bodily defect could inherit the throne. This boy, Melor, was provided with a silver hand and a brazen foot which he used with great dexterity.
~ Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.
~ Frances Hardinge
Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.
~ Billy Graham
Patience . . . speaks of a person's steadfastness under provocation . . .enduring ill-treatment without anger or thought of retaliation or revenge.
~ Billy Graham
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
~ Billy Idol
Principal Any attempt to cheat, especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty, tramp, and I am just gonna snap.
~ Billy Madison
All of us have the potential to be an Absalom, and all of us have the potential to be a David. Absalom felt rejected by his father, David, so he took revenge by seeking to usurp his father's sphere of authority. David felt rejected by Absalom, but he allowed that rejection to keep him soft and crying out to God.
~ Bob Sorge
The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
~ Bob Woodward
I have never even seen a witch, let alone felt the need to burn one to death. We can conclude, then, that our forefathers, equipped with the knowledge that supernatural explanations were reasonable, rounded up all the witches in existence and took care of them. The other possibility is that there are witches out there, hiding somewhere, plotting their revenge, liberally applying fireproofing compounds to themselves. And someday they may reappear and start causing trouble.
~ Bobby Henderson
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
~ Bobby Sands
Rock 'n' roll is the sound of revenge, all right.
~ Bono
But Pelagia didn't wait for the second circle: with a sickening squeal, she thrust the two needles straight through the cloth of the bag into the murderer's only eye. At the final moment she suddenly felt frightened: What if she hadn't remembered which eye was the natural one? However, to judge
~ Boris Akunin
He does not meet my eye. This is good. He fears Zorra. He fears me. As he said before, he does not want to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. This is why I believe in massive and disproportional retaliation. It makes your next enemy think twice. "Where
~ Harlan Coben
I'm going to serve up his balls for breakfast. Your job, to keep within this metaphor, is to do the grocery shopping. Can you handle that?" That
~ Harlan Coben
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge … I have no mouth. And I must scream. (Page 13).
~ Harlan Ellison
Inwardly: alone. Here. Living. under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better. At least the four of them are safe at last. AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge … I have no mouth. And I must scream.
~ Harlan Ellison
Asked at one point why he had slain so many of his neighbors, Unruh replied: "I'd have killed a thousand if I'd had bullets enough."[55]
~ Harold Schechter
He's going to make me some invisible ink, and I'm going to write Dill in it. Francis asked what was the use of that. Well can't you just see his face when he gets a letter from me with nothing in it? It'll drive him nuts.
~ Harper Lee
Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
~ Haruki Murakami
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said. "Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance.
~ Haruki Murakami
Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Adalet duygusu, Kohlhaas'? bir haydut, bir katil yapt?.
~ Heinrich von Kleist