Revenge Quotes - Page 38

• I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Hard Work, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2185, Library of Alexandria

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• Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Enemy, Suffering

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• For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

  Confucius

  Life, Justice, Benefits

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• A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

  Cyril Connolly

  Cheating, Women, Infidelity

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• I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Trying, Want

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• If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

  Isaac Newton

  Passion, Silence, Be Patient

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• I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Sweet, Provoked, Objects

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.358

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• There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself

  James Nayler

  Wrath, Evil, Exaltation

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• Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

  Walter Scott

  Mouths, Hell, Sweetest

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.244

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• There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

  Banksy

  Art, Sex, Sleep

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• Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Rain, Ocean

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.616, Library of Alexandria

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• One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

  Vernon Howard

  Hurt, Ideas, Mind

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• When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.

  Walt Frazier

  Team, Winning, Player

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• I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

  Rosanne Cash

  Giving, Hatred, Desire

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• All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

  John Milton

  Courage, Hate, Yield

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 105 (1667)

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• Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge ... Creative revenge ... allows you to get even - to extract some satisfactory justice - when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.

  Sonia Friedman

  Anger, Justice, Mad

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• Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a majestic countenance, but when it has "coupled hell" and become crime, it grows increasingly foul and sordid. We love and admire Hamlet so much at the beginning that we tend to forget that he is as hot-blooded as the earlier Macbeth when he kills Polonius and the King, cold-blooded as the later Macbeth or Iago when he sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death.

  Harold Clarke Goddard

  Kings, Ambition, Hot

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• You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Return, Reckoning, Reconciliation

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• Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Ignorance, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.47, David M Gross

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• I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rome, Independence, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.57, David M Gross

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• When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophical, Mind, Riches

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• Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

  Madeleine Albright

  Law, Hands, Support

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• The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

  Perry Brass

  Men, Years, Scratches

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.

  Mary B. Harris

  Character, Government, Law

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• Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems

  Sarah Jakes

  Sweet, Seems

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