Revenge quotes

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

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?

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

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

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

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.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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

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

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

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

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

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

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

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

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