Revenge Quotes

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

The best revenge is massive success.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

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.'

While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Revenge doesn't stop.

I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.

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

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

France does not practice revenge.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Justice is revenge.

Living well is the best revenge.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

The best revenge in the world is success.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.

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

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

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.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

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

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

I love revenge.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

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