revenge Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

54 revenge Quotes
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“Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get my wayI don't believe in soft solutionsNo one makes a fool of meWithout receiving retributionNo one hurts me and goes freeI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downI've heard it said, to err is humanIt's forgiveness that's divineI thought about forgiving you, butI want revenge, I want what's mineI think it's time to settle scores nowIt's time to set the record straightYou'll know it's coming, you won't know howOr when, you'll have to watch and waitI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downYou know, it feels intoxicatingTo be intimidatingIt's invigoratingTo see you shakingI've got the power to bring you downYou know something, you see it coming, You know I will stop at nothing.”
Red Delicious Quotes
“Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!”
Calvin & Hobbes Quotes
“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
“An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Revenge is a confession of pain”
Latin Proverb Quotes
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”
Alexandre Dumas Quotes
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
Josh Billings Quotes
“Revenge is a dish best served cold”
Juvenal Quotes
“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
“By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.”
Unknown Quotes
“By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.”
Unknown Quotes
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Of Revenge
“Women do most delight in revenge.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes
Source: Christian Morals (part III, sec. XII)
“Sweet is revenge--especially to women.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 124)
“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.”
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3) Quotes
Source: on rejoining the Conservatives 20 years after leaving the Liberals
“'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Source: Poor Richard
“Revenge is profitable.”
Edward Gibbon Quotes
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. XI)
“It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (XVIII, 109)
“Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 367), (Pope's translation)
“Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes
Source: Satires (XIII, 180)
“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes
Source: Satires (XIII, 189)
“No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes
Source: Satires (XIII, 191)
“Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 105)
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 171)
“I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes
Source: Le Medecin Malgre Lui (III, 9)