Revenge Quotes - Page 28

• Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Hate, Jealous

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• If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Return, Behaviour

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.485

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• There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

  Josh Billings

  Passion, Heart, Promise

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Injury, Revenue

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• There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Father, Anger

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• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, People, Missing

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• The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

  Philip Sidney

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.54

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• Death is the great leveller.

  Claudius Claudianus

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• Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Courage, Generosity, Forgiving

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Crush, Peace, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.26, Variocity

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• Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Injury, Neglect, Increase

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.172, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

  Forgiveness, Heart, Hatred

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• Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hatred, Chance, Concealed

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• No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Nerd, Computer, Mess

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• Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

  Edward Tenner

  Use, Paper, Lost

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• And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

  Robert Hamer

  Italian, People, Taste

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• A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cat, Violin, Intestines

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• Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Squares, Ideas

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• Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gains, Humiliating

  Q Magazine Interview, April 1, 2003.

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• The best revenge is democracy.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Democracy, Best Revenge

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• If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

  Angela Elwell Hunt

  Sweet, Knights, Taste

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• By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

  William Hazlitt

  Accomplishment, Suffering, Done

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.495

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• I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history.

  Simon Critchley

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

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• The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Most Powerful, Secretary

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• Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ignorance, Age, Middle

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