Revenge Quotes

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

~ Bob Monkhouse

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

~ Chris Bradford

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

~ Susane Colasanti

Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

~ Addison Moore

For some offenses, there is only retribution. Nora Hawks, One Woman's Vengeance.

~ Dennis R. Miller

How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey.

~ Alan Bradley

For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.

~ Xavier Forneret

Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either lick their wounds in humiliated silence or start the Trojan Wars. Having no other power or public voice, the betrayed woman reaches for her pen.

~ Frances Wilson

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!

~ Cyrano De Bergerac

If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

~ Michael Scott

Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and there is no sweeter dish than outliving an enemy

~ Don Darkes

I've decided that I'm going to collect as many spiders in a jar as I can and then pour them all over you, William Flecter. Seeing as how it's good to face your fears.

~ Sharon Biggs Waller

When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfather told him, Many fine things your father had planned for you: learning and useful work and a life of satisfaction and peace. Do you recall this?Yes, Grandfather.The learning you shall have. You will learn patience and resource, the ability of your hands and your mind. You will have useful work: the destruction of evil men. What work could be more useful? This is Beyond; you will find that your work is never done—so therefore you may never know life of peace. However, I guarantee you ample satisfaction, for I will teach you to crave the blood of these men more than the flesh of woman.The old man had been as good as his word.

~ Jack Vance

Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

~ Adeline Yen Mah

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

~ J.p. Donleavy

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

~ Lisa Gardner

Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will smile at this piece of prophecy - do so, but recollect it: it is justified by all human experience. No one was ever even the involuntary cause of great evils to others, without a requital: I have paid and am paying for mine - so will you.

~ George Gordon Byron

That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.

~ Reyna Pryde

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

~ Donna Leon

I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.(The Vengeance Of The Dead)

~ Robert Barr

Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.

~ Sister Souljah

Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

~ Alice Sebold

Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.

~ John Ajvide Lindqvist

Six months ago when she first came up with the idea to kill Wilson, back when she was living in Memphis, she'd started going to church again. Since she was spending so much time thinking about sinister things, the least she could do, she reasoned, was to think about God and his love twice a week at church so that she wouldn't become a total sociopath. And rather than kill other people who were stand-ins for the person she really wanted to kill, like serial killers did, she'd be kind and generous to others and hone in on the one who deserved to die. And her plan had worked extremely well. Since she'd started planning to kill Wilson, and then decided to destroy his family instead, she felt no animosity toward anyone but him. Almost none at all!

~ Elizabeth Stuckey-French

The black widow, who had dispatched a lover or two, was sought out for her wisdom. The young spider asked her, Did you keep his harmful secret under the threat of danger, or did you spin a web so confusing that he didn't know if you were friend or foe? Did you release him from the web and your presence or will you give another the venom in which to finish him? The black widow was quiet and then said, All of the above.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.

~ Emily Brontë

At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.

~ William Shakespeare

There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

No. I didn't say you could talk yet.You made me feel like crap. I didn't fit into your little definition of perfect and you never let me forget it. I can assure you there is nothing. Nothing that would ever make you worth the air you breathe.

~ Nyrae Dawn

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said.“Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.

~ Haruki Murakami

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

~ Haruki Murakami

My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If you seek revenge, it means you're scared or you feel guilty for what happened in some way. It's okay to be angry with someone, but don't think about revenge. It's like a disease that eats you up.

~ David Miller

You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me.But if you ever deliberately provoke me, in a way trying to hurt me, I'm so worried that you will die, or injured with heart full of revenge.The kind of revenge which you will never be able to fully retaliate, a revenge that will only add to next innocent victims..in between you and me.

~ Toba Beta

Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet. I have survived the beginning, bloom, and death of countless enemies, civilizations, and people. And the one truth I have learned most during all of these centuries is the old Japanese proverb. If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

~ Diogenes Of Sinope

If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.Either you just let the grudge go, or make him chary.

~ Toba Beta

One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do not interrupt me. I am a courier from another world. I bring you golden words.Listen!' said the Boy. 'Where I come from there is no more fear. But there is a roaring and a bellowing and a cracking of bones. And sometimes there is silence when, lolling on your thrones, your slaves adore you.

~ Mervyn Peake

I wanted it more than enough. I wanted it with every fiber of my being, and I had the power to make it happen - to make it so I was the one Drew wanted, not Lizzie

~ Michelle Madow