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Quotes about Revenge


Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

Women do most delight in revenge.

Sir Thomas Browne

Sweet is revenge--especially to women.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Benjamin Franklin

Revenge is profitable.

Edward Gibbon

It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.]

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.]

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

John Milton

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

John Milton

Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

William Shakespeare

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

The Talmud

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

German Proverb

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Francis Bacon

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Francis Bacon

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Earl of Chesterfield

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Samuel Johnson

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

Walter Weckler

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Austin O'Malley

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Mary, Queen of Scots

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

George Bernard Shaw

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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