Revenge Quotes

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

~ J.k. Rowling

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

~ George R.r. Martin

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

~ William Goldman

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

~ Walter Scott

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

~ Marcus Aurelius

Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.

~ Jessica Brody

Revenge proves its own executioner.

~ John Ford

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

~ Jodi Picoult

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Beware the fury of a patient man.

~ John Dryden

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

~ Muhammad Ali

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

~ Darren Shan

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

~ Shannon L. Alder

...to the last I grapple with thee, from hell's heart I stab at thee, for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

~ Herman Melville

I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my hea

~ Tahereh Mafi

Vengeance and retribution require a long time, it is the rule.

~ Charles Dickens

...And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me.

~ Samantha Young

She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

~ Lauren Destefano

Mind my words, Cheshire, I will have you banished from this kingdom if you tempt me.An empty threat from an empty girl.She rounded on him, teeth flashing. I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow on to you.There was a time – Cheshire yawned – when you overflowed with whimsy and icing sugar. I liked that Catherine better.

~ Marissa Meyer

I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.

~ T. Mountebank

Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.

~ Joshua Caleb

Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

~ Jonas Jonasson

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...

~ Ishmael Beah

Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ...(Rapunzel glares)Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

~ Shannon Hale

There were many, many debts to be paid before she left Rifthold and took back her throne. Starting now. Fortunate that she was in a killing sort of mood.

~ Sarah J. Maas

She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let him live with himself and take satisfaction from knowing that he has never been in a real fight in his life and that one day he will have to face his demons in person, along with the consequences, and that both can be far more painful than anything she could ever do to him.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

~ Anne Frank

If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or we can use them to hide our true intentions.

~ Emily Thorne

Revenge is never the answer

~ Kasie West

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

~ Jonathan Maberry

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine...And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

~ Harlan Ellison

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)

~ Naomi Novik

She'd said that revenge was not sweet, that it was bloody. She was wrong. It *was* sweet. For one fleeting, glorious moment you felt incredible satisfaction. Then it was gone, empty, and you had to go on living. The power high that filled me with her light had faded, and all I tasted now were bitter ashes.

~ Sunny

...it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Funny thing about revenge. It could make a killer out of a nun.

~ Kevis Hendrickson

My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.

~ Brenna Yovanoff

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

~ William Shakespeare

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

~ Emily Brontë

... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

~ David Gemmell

I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.

~ Dee Dee Ramone