Revenge Quotes

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare

Laugh, Die, Wrong

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Human, Foundation

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone, Impossible, Making

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius

Best, Him, Injury

The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra

Success, Best, Massive

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

Often, Boredom, Themselves

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Cannot, Either

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Today, May

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

Green, Wounds, Keeps

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry

Wife, Him, Keep

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson

Justice, Passion, Act

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius

Best, Imitation, Refrain

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Anger, Often, Concealed

Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon

Enemy, Taking, Superior

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
Douglas Horton

Yourself, Two, While

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce

Patience, Worth, While

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope

Angry, Others, Ourselves

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
Meir Kahane

Time, Place, Justified

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams

Nothing, Quite, Inspires

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson

Pain, Gratitude, Minds

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock

Sweet, Fattening

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Justice, Law

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

War, Defense, Wars

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
Meir Kahane

Love, Peace, War

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands

Laughter, Children

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman

Hate, Evil, Through

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
Salman Rushdie

Life, Remember, Old

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon

Green, Wounds, Heal

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