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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
Patricia Cornwell
May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch
Keisha Keenleyside
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.
Frederick Rolfe
Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.
Ramon Bautista
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame, The fire of love supplies ; While that which often bears the name, Is self in a disguise. True zeal is merciful and mild, Can pity and forbear ; The false is headstrong, fierce and wild, And breathes revenge and war.
John Newton
Utu--Maori revenge. 'Do everything well, boy. Do it better than them. Be a better rugby player, better at your job. Outshine them everywhere. Tramp on their pride. Go far, and leave them sniveling in your dust.
Kris Pearson
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
Jane Porter
A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.
Suzanne Collins
There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged
Benjamin Franklin
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?
Mark Lawrence
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
Mark Twain
No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don't amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that's how you get even with these boys.
Orson Scott Card
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
William Shakespeare
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
Proverb
Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
J.K. Rowling
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
Victor Hugo
At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.
What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so . I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge.
Christopher Hitchens