Revenge Quotes - Page 13

• It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

  Stendhal

  Husband, Blow, Doors

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.140, Tyché

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• 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.

  John Adams

  Philosophy, Party, Ambition

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.102, Library of America

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• "Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind".

  John Wesley

  Country, Powerful, Garden

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• There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

  Francis Bacon

  Fear, Grief, Passion

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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

  Edward Young

  Children, Fire, Soul

  Edward Young (1825). “The Revenge: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.12

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• Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

  Joseph Stanislaw

  Scar, Heal, Grows

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• Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 124.

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• I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.

  Mike Carey

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.

  William Congreve

  Hate, One Day, Ems

  1700 The Way of the World, act 1, sc.3.

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• I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.

  Eric Davis

  Play, Momentum, Bigs

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• There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow.

  Hugh Allen

  Wisdom, Fighting, Blow

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• Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

  Akhenaton

  Pain, Men, Purpose

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

  Francis Bacon

  Justice, Classic, Kind

  Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

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• The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

  John Wesley

  Dog, Pain, Pride

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• I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

  James Brown

  Crazy, Karate, Retribution

  James Brown (2013). “James Brown - The Ultimate Collection (Songbook)”, p.123, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

  Sting

  Stars, Violence, Forget

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• The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

  Joe Walsh

  Hatred, Violence, Tempest

  Song: The Confessor

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• What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

  Edward Young

  Self, Honor, Debt

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• In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Enemy, Glory

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

  John Locke

  Anger, Mind, Purpose

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.148

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• Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.

  John Newton

  War, Fire, Self

  John Newton (1877). “Olney hymns: in three books”, p.423

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• Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

  Voltaire

  Book, Able, Succeed

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• A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

  Lord Byron

  Punishment, Atheism, Answers

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

  Takashi Miike

  Dream, Real, Skills

  Source: collider.com

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