Revenge Quotes

I've discovered the secret of revenge. Outlive the f---ers! I'll dance on their graves.

~ Michael Robotham

You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.

~ Neal Shusterman

Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.

~ Michelle Madow

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 Brontë

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

~ William Goldman

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

~ China Miéville

Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!

~ George R.r. Martin

Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.

~ Émile Gaboriau

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

~ Jonathan Kellerman

Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -

~ Sonya Hartnett

Still smiling she carried the TV through the doorway; then she gave it the strongest heave she could manage... When it hit Alan's oversized brick barbecue and the glass front of the TV smashed, Leslie didn't think she'd ever heard a more satisfying sound.

~ Jude Deveraux

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

~ Josephine Humphreys

When it comes to exacting revenge, it gets harder and harder to top yourself each successive time

~ Josh Stern

The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did our bidding. The centerpiece was a roasted stag. crowned with gilded antlers and stuffed with songbirds; they had hunted well. We were forbidden to kill the deer that fattened on our coleworts and stole our grain, and the venison tasted all the better for the salt of revenge.

~ Sarah Micklem

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

~ Patricia Cornwell

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

~ Paul Gauguin

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

~ Meir Kahane

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

~ Chief Seattle

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

~ Martin Luther King

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

~ Robert Crumb

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

~ Francis Bacon

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

~ Ambrose Bierce

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

~ Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'

~ Richard Corliss

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.

~ Beth Ditto

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

~ Sister Souljah

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

~ Khloe Kardashian

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

~ Friedrich Schiller

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

~ Ravi Zacharias

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

~ Meir Kahane

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

~ Ivana Trump

The best revenge is massive success.

~ Frank Sinatra

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

~ Eddie Vedder

Living well is the best revenge.

~ George Herbert

Looking good is the best revenge.

~ Ivana Trump

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

~ Marcus Aurelius

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

~ John Mccarthy

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

~ John Boyd Orr

It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.

~ Jim Brown