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Quotes About Revenge

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.
~ Sarah Dessen
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
~ Taylor Swift
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
~ Walter Scott
I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
~ William Shakespeare
What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?
~ Edward Young
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
~ Francis Bacon
There is much enjoy in vengeance than love, and we humans already knew that.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could see its dint in the white flesh. Then he struck with all his might.
~ Bram Stoker
If you go where you do not belong, you could open the door to vicious retribution from powerful enemies.
~ Brandon Mull
Dhartha's deep blue eyes flashed. "This is not about pride, Aurelius Venport. This is only about killing a pest of the desert.
~ Brian Herbert
While lashing out against an insult can provide a certain gratification, a long-anticipated and carefully planned revenge is far more satisfying. —DIRECTEUR JOSEPH VENPORT, private conversation with his wife, Cioba
~ Brian Herbert
It is said that the Fremen has no conscience, having lost it in a burning desire for revenge. This is foolish. Only the rawest primitive and the sociopath have no conscience. The Fremen possesses a highly evolved world-view centered on the welfare of his people. His sense of belonging to the community is almost stronger than his sense of self. It is only to outsiders that these desert dwellers seem brutish Ã¢â'¬Â¦ just as outsiders appear to them. Pardot Kynes, The People of Arrakis
~ Brian Herbert
Aye, she'm cutten our tails off'n us wi' a single swipe, missie!
~ Brian Jacques
You don't have to be insane to cut people up, no matter how fiendishly you do it. You just have to hate enough.
~ Bruce Robinson
Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to.
~ Bryce Courtenay
In life, there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
~ Candace Bushnell
We'll then, Enjd said. What's the problem? This, Mindy said. She opened her hand and held up a tiny green plastic toy solider thrusting a bayonet. I don't understand, Enid said. This morning, when I opened my door to get the newspaper, I found a whole troop of them arranged on the mat. And you think Paul Rice did it, Enid said skeptically. I don't think he did it. I know he did it, Mindy said. He told me if I didn't approve his air conditioners, it was war...
~ Candace Bushnell
In life there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
~ Candace Bushnell
First, I put his ass in jail," García said, "then I married his wife.
~ Carl Hiaasen
One day he came home to find her burning his collection of heavy-metal CDs, which she had taken to calling "devil wafers." She
~ Carl Hiaasen
Bode Gazzer was five feet six and had never forgiven his parents for it. He wore three-inch snakeskin shitkickers and walked with a swagger that suggested not brawn so much as hemorrhoidal tribulation.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Revenge is such a tiresome business.
~ Terry Brooks
I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!
~ Terry Goodkind
Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.
~ Terry Goodkind