Samuel Johnson Quotes About Revenge

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Passion, Justice

  Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617

• 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, Resentment, Insult

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Coward, Defense

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.126

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gratitude, Pain, Revenge

  'The Rambler' no. 87 (15 January 1751)

• To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Guilt, Degrees

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.104, Canongate Books

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