Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Winger

He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top.

Rudy Giuliani

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

Sandra Cisneros

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

Samuel Johnson

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Samuel Johnson

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Samuel Johnson

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Saddam Hussein

Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

Robert Jordan

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

William Hazlitt

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Milan Kundera

When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.

Jose Mourinho

If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

Jonathan Swift

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Jonathan Swift

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

Jonathan Nolan

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

Naomie Harris

I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge.

Naomie Harris

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

Naomie Harris

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

Louise Erdrich

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

Jake Delhomme

It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago. This was just a big win for us.

Henry Rollins

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

Henry Rollins

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

Henry Rollins

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

Henry Hazlitt

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

Hector Hugh Munro

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

John Adams

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.

John Adams

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.

James Scott

Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.

Lana Parrilla

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.

Lana Parrilla

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.

Libba Bray

People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.

Friedrich Engels

Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

Friedrich Schiller

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