Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricardo Montalban

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Julius Caesar

Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this...that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over.

Otto Weininger

Everything evil is revenge.

Kanye West

Success is the best revenge.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

Ellen Hopkins

revenge is living well with out you.

Ellen Hopkins

The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

Elizabeth Fry

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

John Bunyan

Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.

Lou Reed

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

Lou Reed

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

Lloyd Alexander

I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.

John Ford

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

John Ford

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

John Ford

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

Jonathan Maberry

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

Jonathan Edwards

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

Joyce Carol Oates

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

Joyce Carol Oates

The best revenge is living well without you.

Joe Eszterhas

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

Jim Les

Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth.

Jimi Hendrix

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

Eric Davis

I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.

Joan Rivers

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

Garry Kasparov

Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

Gabriel Mann

I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

Francois Fillon

France does not practice revenge.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge

Ludacris

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

Lord Byron

A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?