Quotes
Quotes about Revenge
They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind.
The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.
Forgiveness is better than revenge.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbulâenormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.
