William Shakespeare Quotes About Revenge

• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Venice, Laughing

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

• At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Lying, Enemy

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakspere”, p.30

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

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Heart, Blood

  1592 Aaron toTamora.Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3, l.38-9.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Fall, Offense

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Shakespeare's HAMLET eBook”, p.192, First Folio Productions

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

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Anger, Enemy

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 1, sc. 1, l. 140

• Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Revenge, Humility

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

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Bears, Looks

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, Richard Farmer (1799). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Timon of Athens”

• The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

  William Shakespeare

  Karma, Time, Revenge

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [388]

• O, a kiss
  Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
  Hath virgined it e'er since.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Revenge

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 44

• In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Revenge, Names

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.212, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Venice, Shylock

  William Shakespeare (1859). “Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays”

• If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Shylock, Bears

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [42]

• IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Beer, Gay

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 148

• No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Should Have, Murder

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 127

• Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Kindness, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.191

• Pleasure and revenge
  Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
  Of any true decision.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Voice, Decision

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
  Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
  I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
  That both the worlds I give to negligence,
  Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Giving, Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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