Revenge Sayings & Quotes
These revenge sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. - George Santayana
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. - Confucius
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. - George Bernard Shaw
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - John Milton
No more tears now; I will think about revenge. - Mary Stuart
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world, in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' - Susan Sontag
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable. - Thomas Fuller
Sweet is revenge, especially to women. - Lord Byron
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. - Hannah Arendt
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murderers fix revengeful eyes. - George Chapman
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. - Euripides
The sun should not set upon our anger; neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. - Charles Caleb Colton
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? - William Shakespeare
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. - Mark Twain