Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricardo Montalban

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Ellen Hopkins

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

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?

Lord Chesterfield

If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.

Mahatma Gandhi

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Gavrilo Princip

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

Haruki Murakami

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.

Joel Barlow

The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Joe Walsh

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Jo Coudert

If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

Jo Nesbo

With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can’t learn that...

Jo Nesbo

Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

Jo Brand

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.

James Taylor

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

James Patterson

That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

Henry Spencer

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

Hayden Christensen

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.

Heraclitus

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

Haruki Murakami

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

Harlan Ellison

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.