Revenge Quotes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Christopher Hitchens

Well, I think it

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, repl

You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.

Dick Armey

She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

Ralph McGill

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

Walter Weckler

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

J.K. Rowling

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Mark Twain

A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

Albert Camus

Where vice is vengeance follows.

Scottish Proverb

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Friedrich von Schiller

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

George Orwell

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 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, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Sir Winston Churchill

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Charlotte Bronte

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.

Stephen King

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Arthur Schopenhauer