Revenge Quotes

Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There’ll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It’s a reversion to constant, visceral fear.

~ Ian Mcewan

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation.

~ Ian Mcewan

Everything that glitters ain't gold.

~ Nyree Ausler

He who plots revenge must dig two graves.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Remember these Romans, Hannibal. For the time being, we must ally with them. But the day will come when we will have our vengeance upon them, as we will upon the demons of Harappa. Never forget that.”The boy's voice was grave. “I'll remember.

~ Jennifer Mckeithen

Being happy is the best revenge.

~ Tiffany Reisz

Revenge loses sight of the end in the means, but it's end is not wholly bad - it wants the evil of the bad man to be to him what it is to everyone else. This is proved by the fact that the avenger wants the guilty party not merely to suffer, but to suffer at his hands, and to know it, and to know why. Hence the impulse to taunt the guilty man with his crime at the moment of taking vengeance: hence, too, such natural expressions as 'I wonder how he'd like it if the same thing were done to him' or 'I'll teach him'. For the same reason when we are going to abuse a man in words we say we are going to 'let him know what we think of him'.

~ C.s. Lewis

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

~ Terrence Real

What is your itinerary?To meet my maker.Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?A most mechanical and dirty hand [laughs]. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The things I will do, what they are, yet I know not. But they will be the terrors of the earth. You don't know where you are, do you? You're in a prison of your own sins.

~ Michael Crichton

Man against man can only take revenge but cannot punish

~ Santosh Avvannavar

I’m dancing on land mines across your chest.Hoping high hopes I’ll trigger some

~ Renee Ruin

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

~ Clifford Odets

Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

~ William Shakespeare

The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

Samurai are born to die.Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.

~ Rick Remender

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

~ Michael Punke

Anger can be used for destruction and construction, It will be your decision that how you will use it.

~ Jignesh Ahir

Names didn't matter; names were for toe tags and arrest warrants, not for revenge.

~ Chris Leek

The other good thing was that I had enough rank to strong-arm Marjit into confessing that she'd been the one who'd told everything to Pa about my first invisibility cap, which was how Pa knew to come steal it. Unfortunately, since my rank in the surface world hung off Pa's, I did NOT have enough rank to take him to task for stealing my cap. So I just put him to sleep during a fancy dinner, so that he went facedown into the sour soup. Just the once. It eased my ire terrifically.

~ Merrie Haskell

No matter what side of the law you are on, when it comes to revenge, there is no mercy.

~ R.j. Torbert

I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.

~ Norman Lock

Keep your friends close, and your bunny friends closer.

~ Lawrenz Mejia

Those who hurt, Screw up, if you are lucky Demons will let you watch.

~ Tushar Saxena

Flies are the dead man's revenge.

~ George R.r. Martin

I have earned my revenge on everyone who hurt me. My father, who tortured me every day - I crushed his chest and his heart. Teren, sick and twisted and mad - I took away his beloved just as he took away mine. Raffaele, who betrayed and manipulated me - I seized control of the prince he loves, and I made sure he watched his prince destroy in my name. And Violetta, darling, dearest sister who turned her back when I needed her the most. I cast her out. I finally said everything to her that I wanted to say. I have hurt back.

~ Marie Lu

It wasn’t desire, it was biology. My body was adapting to the situation. Doing what it needed to survive. That, I was certain of. Because if I had liked it, liked the hands of this monster, that would have made me a monster too.

~ A. Zavarelli

She was the only antidote for the bleakness that lived inside of me. My goddess. My deity. I wasn’t a believer in any religion, but I’d make an exception in this case. I’d get down on my knees and worship at her alter every day if it brought her back to me.

~ A. Zavarelli

Even when she was on her knees- filled with my darkness- she was still shining bright. My Siren’s song, my exposed nerve. She lured me in and made me feel. And then she left me to perish.

~ A. Zavarelli

I needed to channel the darkness that ran through my veins and embrace it. To play this game better than this man ever could have predicted. After all, I’d only been with him twice, and already I could see his weakness. His weakness was me.

~ A. Zavarelli

I didn’t know what to say. What to do. I didn’t feel strong anymore. I felt like I couldn’t go on without him. He loved me fiercely. Obsessively. Rivalled only by the intensity which I felt for him. So why couldn’t we be together?

~ A. Zavarelli

It was Brighton. She made me fucking insane. Her beauty and absolute perfection dissolved any moral boundaries that may have existed within me.

~ A. Zavarelli

Don’t deny me what’s mine, Brighton.

~ A. Zavarelli

I’m not letting you go, baby girl. You need to accept that.

~ A. Zavarelli

Know what’s worse than cold turkey? Just a little bump. One tiny sip to take the edge off. The edges never went away, they only got sharper. Every addict would tell you. Gray areas couldn’t exist in a sober environment.

~ A. Zavarelli

I’d single-handedly go to war and burn their whole organization to the ground before I ever let them harm what was mine. And there were no two ways about it- Brighton would always be mine.

~ A. Zavarelli

That's when I learned the hardest truth about vengeance: it had no logical end, served no real purpose, except perhaps to delay grief.

~ Peter Orullian

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.

~ Euripides

At the same time, the thought of Gisela suffering at Ruexner's hands sent ice water through his veins, along with a stab of guilt. If Gisela should suffer pain or distress at Ruexner's hands, it would be his fault. Ruexner had only taken her because of his hatred for Valten. God, I must save her. I must not fail.

~ Melanie Dickerson

revenge is only sweet to those whom rancor have distorted their taste.

~ Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela