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• To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life And Love, Hatred, Crowns

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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Break Up, Men, Stones

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45

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• Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

  Winston Churchill

  Rats, Certain, Ingenuity

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.88, A&C Black

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• It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.

  Homer

  Honey, Revenge Is Sweet

  "Iliad". Poem by Homer, XVIII,

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• In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hurt, Stupid, Negative People

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• Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Long, Firsts

  John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.153

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• Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

  Pierre Corneille

  Punishment, Doe, Vengeance

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• Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Dream, Fear

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When we pray for forgiveness, let us say, "my temper," or "untruthfulness," or "pride," "my selfishness, my cowardice, indolence, jealousy, revenge, impurity." To recognize our sins, we must look them in the face and call them by their right names, however hard. Honesty in confession calls for definiteness in confession.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Honesty, Pride, Names

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Weed, Nature

  Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

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• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Imitation, Refrain, Best Revenge

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• Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

  Walter Scott

  Thinking, Flames, Blood

  Sir Walter Scott (1857). “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field”, p.269

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• Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Forgiveness, Feelings, Forgiving

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• Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Hustle, Literature

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• There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

  Benjamin Franklin

  May

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Men, Sublime

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• Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Men, Lasts, Ghost

  "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". Video Game, www.imdb.com. November 10, 2009.

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• You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

  Dick Armey

  Success, Wisdom, Get Ahead

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  If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Humorous, Math, Haste Makes Waste

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hot, Coal, Grudge

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• Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sweet, Fattening, Best Revenge

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• One good act of vengeance deserves another.

  John Jefferson

  Competition, Vengeance, Conflict

  "Zinda", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Blood, Hands

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

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• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

  Sacha Guitry

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" edited by Connie Robertson, (p. 83), 1998.

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