Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dryden

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

John Dryden

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

John Dryden

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

John Locke

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

Jodie Foster

a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

There may have been a little revenge on our minds.

Dick Armey

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Charles Caleb Colton

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Edward Gibbon

The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable.

William Shakespeare

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

William Shakespeare

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

William Shakespeare

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

William Shakespeare

You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.

Cesare Pavese

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

Bobby Frasor

In reality, all those guys are gone, so you can't say it's revenge. It's a completely new team.

William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Bashar al-Assad

Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.

Baruch Spinoza

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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

Al Yankovic

He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

Al Yankovic

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

Alanis Morissette

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

Jane Smiley

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Baltasar Gracian

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.

Baltasar Gracian

Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Bram Stoker

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

Brenden Morrow

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

Brennan Manning

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

Antonya Nelson

Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

Edward Young

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

Edmund Spenser

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Edgar Allan Poe

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.