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Quotes About Revenge

Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.
~ Louise Erdrich
When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
I am not vindictive, but very forgiving. Despite being wronged, I never took revenge on anyone.
~ Rituparna Sengupta
The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.
~ Ivan Moody
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.
~ Rudy Giuliani
People said I had no heart, I was lackadaisical, the whole nine yards. But success is the best revenge, and I'm proving all of them wrong, even Evander Holyfield.
~ Riddick Bowe
Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
~ Sam Heughan
I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.
~ David Prowse
Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.
~ Sister Souljah
King Atli had Hogni's heart cut out while he was alive, and that was his death.
~ Snorri Sturluson
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meek ness and forgiveness. A day may come—it will come, if his prayer is heard—a terrible day of vengeance, when the master in his turn will cry in for mercy.
~ Solomon Northup
Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -
~ Sonya Hartnett
I should like to toss Eustace on a fire! What a pity such actions are against the law. All I can say is that whoever made that particular law must never have met Eustace.
~ Sophie Hannah
If you will allow Poirot to offer you a piece of wise advice: the pursuit of revenge is rarely a good idea.
~ Sophie Hannah
Miguel: We've only gone over 100x! Mika: K—gonna roc!! Billy: Glad ur babysitting, dumbass. U know how 2 shoot, right? Mika: Screw u! Kevin: Cut the crap—stay focused treat us like animals we'll show them animals Mika: Hear that! Miguel: Payback a bitch!
~ Sophie Jordan
Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
~ Spanish proverb
It never ceases to amaze, how often sex and love lead to murder and hatred.
~ Sparkle Hayter
Her first week as a girl wearing black came and went and she knew she was doing a terrible job at it. But she didn't care. How could she focus on the inanities of life as a Thorndike student when she knew that Melissa Mayhew had tortured and killed her father?
~ Spencer Baum
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
~ Spinoza
Worldy honor hath also its grace, and the power of overcoming, and of mastery; whence springs also the thirst of revenge. But yet, to obtain all these, we may not depart from Thee, O Lord, nor decline from Thy law.
~ St. Augustine
Revenge is nothing but the dark side of the sense of fairness.
~ Stefan Klein
Siempre que un pueblo recurre a la violencia para arrebatarles la libertad a otros, pierde con ello, en una enigmática venganza, la fuerza portentosa de su propio aislamiento.
~ Stefan Zweig
Fils de putain
~ Stephanie Bond
The husband has the right to avenge himself if his wife is unfaithful. The village has known for many moons that White Eagle planned to steal Prairie Flower away from Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf has learned of this and punished his wife.
~ Stephanie Grace Whitson