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• Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

  Kanye West

  Hip Hop, Needs, Life Happiness

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• Real revenge is making something of yourself.

  Gerard Way

  Real

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Heart, Hands, Enemy

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• A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.

  Kate Moss

  Unfair, Said, Horrible

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• Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Past, Reaching, Reach Out

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.25, Baen Books

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• Revenge is a meal best served cold.

  Denzel Washington

  Meals, Cold

  "Fictional character: Creasy". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Silence

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• No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with interest.

  Sulla

  Men, Enemy, Harm

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• The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Adversity, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.297

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• I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

  Gabriel Mann

  Stories, Lines, Listen To Me

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• O, a kiss
  Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
  Hath virgined it e'er since.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Jealous

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 44

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• Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

  Lou Reed

  Mind, Retribution, Jealously

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• Pleasure and revenge
  Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
  Of any true decision.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Decision, Ears

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

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• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
  Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
  I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
  That both the worlds I give to negligence,
  Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Grace, Devil

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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• It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

  Vin Diesel

  Dirty, Loss, Naughty

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• In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

  William Ralph Inge

  Independence, Revolution, Patriot

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mature, Injury, Forbearance

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.707, Library of America

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• I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

  Ludacris

  War, Retribution

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• Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

  Dolly Parton

  Jealous, Heart, Imagine

  Song: Jealous Heart

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• Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Too Much, Retribution

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• Give the devil his due.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Giving, Devil, Sandman

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.

  John Adams

  Party, Inquiry, Resentment

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.273

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• The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

  William Shakespeare

  Karma, Time, Eternity

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [388]

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• Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

  Niels Arden Oplev

  Drama, Action, Eye For An Eye

  Source: collider.com

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