Quotes about revenge
revenge war heart
Thomas Paine America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.
revenge bears cost
Thomas F. Wilson It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
revenge delight
Thomas Browne Women do most delight in revenge.
revenge may delight
Thomas Browne Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
revenge italian people
Robert Hamer And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'
revenge unjust may
Robert Greene Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.
revenge interesting redemption
Sylvester Stallone Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
revenge waiting choices
Rajneesh Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.
revenge military taken
Robert Hass Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.
revenge two hours
Tony Scott All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
revenge reality literature
Simone de Beauvoir Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ...
revenge virtue injury
Richard Brinsley Sheridan A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.
revenge adversity men
Thucydides Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required
revenge careers whole
Ruby Wax My whole career has been an act of revenge.
revenge ambition vain
Roger Penrose Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
revenge fancy beats
Sam Torrance We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them!
revenge pride temptation
Thomas Merton But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.
revenge real want
Susan Sarandon When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".
revenge world best-revenge
Suge Knight The best revenge in the world is success.
revenge animated-series kill-bill
Stephen Fry Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.
revenge children people
Tilda Swinton Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.
revenge mistake inspiration
Thomas Szasz Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
revenge men gun
Tim LaHaye The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
revenge weapons world
Tim LaHaye Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.
revenge mcdonalds pearls
S. I. Hayakawa McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
revenge had-enough enough-time
Sophie Kinsella Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.
revenge dirty loss
Vin Diesel 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.
revenge stories alive
Uwe Boll 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.
revenge mirrors long
Suzanne Collins A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.
revenge men return
Sophocles God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
revenge eye thinking
Sophia Bush I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through. My rule is to hold your head high and never stop looking that person in the eye, because they know and you know, and you're still the professional. And they can just feel like an ass for the rest of their lives. That's my favorite thing to do.
revenge giving hatred
Rosanne Cash I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.