Quotes About Revenge

It will be harder because they are going to want revenge, they need revenge.

Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Sometimes people hurt us unintentionally. We may view that they've hurt us intentionally and want revenge. But sometimes when we really look back again, we can see that they weren't intentional in trying to hurt us. That's when we need to confess our judgment of them and forgive them for their unintentional hurts committed against us.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

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And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.

The reason I want to explain that you're probably never going to get revenge a sociopath and you're also probably not going to redeem this person, is that it is not a project that will ever succeed. At present, if a person does not have a conscience, we know of no way to instill one - not even a little bit. It's not like something you can take off the shelf and put into somebody's brain. It makes me so sad to hear people say, "I think I can see just a little bit of a conscience."

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

I don't know about them, but I sure am. I'm out for revenge.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well.

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.

Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

You can spin it any way you want. You could spin it on their side that this is a revenge game. We can spin it from our side that our guys have confidence. They know they can beat them. They beat them once. But you know what? None of that matters. We're two different teams. We played them almost a month and a half ago. And every team is different at this point.

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

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 mothers 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.

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.