Revenge Quotes
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You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
William Shakespeare
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I write out of revenge.
William Goldman
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
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If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.
Judith Butler
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Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling.
Seamus Dever
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Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.
Dolly Parton
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I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to he.
Elena Dementieva
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Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
Euripides
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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?
William Shakespeare
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Revenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong?
Adele Griffin
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I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.
Hakeem Seriki
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw
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Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
David Anthony Durham
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Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
Chris Bradford
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One ingredient of revenge is always pride.
Eleanor Dark
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My whole career has been an act of revenge.
Ruby Wax
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Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
Michael O'Donoghue
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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
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Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
Wislawa Szymborska
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
Alexandre Dumas
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Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.
Stephen Sondheim
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It is so much easier for them to talk about what has been done to them—to tell a story of victimization and revenge—than to notice, feel, and put into words the reality of their internal experience.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.
Judith Butler