Revenge Quotes
Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a ...
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When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfat...
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Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.
Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is some...
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand...
Show MoreIt is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...
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You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, ...
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The best revenge is living well.
Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inex...
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It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with a...
Show MoreWhen you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yo...
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Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of h...
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But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition,...
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They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family...
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They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family...
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
Revenge proves its own executioner.
Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone.
What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and th...
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If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, i...
Show MoreWanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you nee...
Show MoreSuccess is the best revenge.
Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in h...
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When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.
There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy thin...
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The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry a...
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Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's s...
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has a...
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Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Rev...
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He who plots revenge must dig two graves.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare.

I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memori...
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I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're abo...
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But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endur...
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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruel...
Show MoreNo trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do...
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What is your itinerary?""To meet my maker.""Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to...
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I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a...
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Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto ...
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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...
Show MoreMen should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries ...
Show MorePeople should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge...
Show MoreNever do an enemy a small injury.
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuri...
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for ...
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
One other question. Would it be acceptable to destroy a universe in the name of a greater love?” The...
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriat...
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It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cart...
Show MoreBut men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted...
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from withi...
Show MoreNothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the...
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Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man...
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It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.For every one of us, living in th...
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For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in...
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Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted ...
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Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.

Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back.

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for t...
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I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, b...
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One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in ...
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclo...
Show MoreAny one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.
And now I demand that you do what the ignorant might feel is the easier thing. You must refrain from...
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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one...
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Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.For h...
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Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of...
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Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...
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I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet ...
Show MoreOne day, after practice, he came up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned around, he...
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The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Sta...
Show MoreI feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in ...
Show MoreAs for Iago’s jealousy, one cannot believe that a seriously jealous man could behave towards his wif...
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