Revenge Quotes
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It revenge is sweeter far than flowing honey.
Homer
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Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.
William Shenstone
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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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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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In reality, all those guys are gone, so you can't say it's revenge. It's a completely new team.
Bobby Frasor
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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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I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.
Hillary Clinton
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The only revenge worth having is success.
Gertrude Atherton
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[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.
George Will
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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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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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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams
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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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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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All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
Tony Scott
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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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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
Haruki Murakami
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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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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