Revenge Quotes
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
Seneca the Younger
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I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
Mitchell Baker
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When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.
Walt Frazier
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
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Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.
Akhenaton
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If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
William Shakespeare
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A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.
James Wan
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
Bill Vaughan
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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
Mary Queen of Scots
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I don't believe revenge is part of my agenda. I'm a firm believer that, just like hate spreads hate, love and kindness spread love and kindness.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
William Goldman
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Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying. It cant make up for the evil done to you, but it can destroy the remaining good in your life.
Bill Willingham
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If revenge is a dish best served cold, confession should be dished up piping hot or not at all.
Erin Kelly
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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The best revenge in the world is success.
Suge Knight
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I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people.
Albert Pierrepoint
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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.
Kim Jee-woon
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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
William Shakespeare
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
Bella Abzug
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.
Elena Ferrante