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Quotes About Revenge

I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
~ Herman Melville
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
~ Herman Melville
I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A wild. mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.
~ Herman Melville
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
~ J. B. Priestley
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
~ William Shakespeare
But a lot of 'Bhavesh Joshi' comes from the 'angry young man' - the Bachchan films of the '70s or the Sunny Deol films of the '80s, where there is someone who has been wronged and wants to do the right thing.
~ Vikramaditya Motwane
If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn't leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.
~ Julia Fox
We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
~ Osama bin Laden
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.
~ Anne Beatts
In the beginning, the U.S. government was happy with its secret operations, since it thought it had managed to gather all the evils of the world in GTMO, and had circumvented U.S. law and international treaties so that it could perform its revenge. But then it realised, after a lot of painful work, that it had gathered a bunch of non-combatants.
~ Mohamedou Ould Slahi
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.
~ Nelson A. Miles
The hatred of those who hate me is like a boomerang to them
~ Avisheena
When you're angry and the fire of revenge is burning your mind, that is the best time to practice calmness, forgiveneess, kindness and love
~ Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.
~ Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth.
~ Debasish Mridha
It's not wise to seek the revenge and forget to love.
~ Debasish Mridha
Revenge is a lie we fabricate to ease our consciences. But like two negatives can never equal a positive, two wrong deeds cannot make a right. They only screw-up the equation.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige
It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.
~ Paolo Maldini
Tanacharison (who could relate to the cow because he claimed that the French had boiled and eaten his father)
~ Stephen Clarke
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
~ Stephen Colbert
She didn't really die. Just got skewered for laughs, left for dead in some steaming pile of gore with her current boy toy.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
what they were thinking. Finally, I understood. They wanted to punish the United States.
~ Stephen H. Schneider
The screws have brought all the revenge attacks on themselves. Most prisoners that have done some nasty damage in the system have come through the young offenders, where that was just a breeding ground for hatred from the screws point of view. They were famous for bullying and battering young, defenceless boys to the point of death, in some cases.
~ Stephen Richards