Revenge Quotes - Page 24

• There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

  Judith Butler

  Grief, Extraordinary Moments, People

  "Judith Butler". Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Revenge is a dish best served . . . At every meal.

  Grumpy Cat

  Meals, Dishes

  4 Copy quote

• In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

  Ami Ayalon

  Pain, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

  Sivananda

  Children, Giving Up, Heart

  21 Copy quote

• A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Sight, Bent

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Comstock Lode”, p.23, Bantam

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Hands, Forgiving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Punctual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Sympathy, Hate, Yield

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Brennan Manning

  Two, Arrogance, Spirituality

  6 Copy quote

• For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Love You, Hatred, Classic

  Source: www.vulture.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, Forgiving, Resentment

  4 Copy quote

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

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, Murder, Bounds

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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Coward, Defense, Slander

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

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Night, Mind, Hell

  6 Copy quote

• It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

  Juvenal

  Mind, Littles, Weak

  8 Copy quote

• Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Forever, Reputation, Misused Words

  4 Copy quote

• How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Thinking, Doe, Make You Happy

  4 Copy quote

• The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

  Rae Foley

  Forgiveness, Race, Vengeance

  Rae Foley (1961). “It's Murder, Mr. Potter”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Hate, Healing, Recovery

  "A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford". Book by Gerald R. Ford, 1979.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!

  JR

  Feelings, Dallas, World

  17 Copy quote

• I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

  Jose Aldo

  Mma, Forgiving, Reason

  31 Copy quote

• Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

  Albert Pierrepoint

  Views, Punishment, Capital Punishment

  Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Lying, Heart, Essence

  6 Copy quote

• Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Rights, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Real, Men, Kind

  4 Copy quote