Revenge Quotes
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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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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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Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
David Anthony Durham
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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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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams
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I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
George Eliot
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By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
William Hazlitt
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I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.
Dolly Parton
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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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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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
Lois McMaster
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All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
Tony Scott
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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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These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice?
Elizabeth Wein
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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.
Jonathan Swift
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He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
Rick Perlstein
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
Sherman Alexie
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
Haruki Murakami