Revenge Is Sweet Quotes

• The best revenge is massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Passion, Justice

  Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617

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• In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Revenge, Women

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.79, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.

  Homer

  Revenge, Honey

  "Iliad". Poem by Homer, XVIII,

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• Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

  Walter Scott

  Revenge, Mouths, Hell

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.244

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• Revenge is a dish best served cold.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Revenge, Food, Animated Series

  "Fictional character: Khan Noonien Singh". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", 1982.

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• Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sweet, Revenge, Fattening

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

  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

  Isaac Barrow

  Sweet, Revenge, Mind

  Isaac Barrow (1720). “The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow[...]”, p.331

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• You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

  Dick Armey

  Success, Wisdom, Revenge

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Dog, Revenge, Anger

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• People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

  Tracey Emin

  Sweet, Revenge, People

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

  John Milton

  Sweet, Revenge, Long

  John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.153

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• Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

  Mason Cooley

  Sweet, Revenge

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• Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

  Juvenal

  Revenge, Thinking, Fool

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, XIII, line 180, 1890.

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• To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

  Alexander Pope

  Spiritual, Revenge, Hate

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• Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

  Stephen Fry

  Revenge, Animated Series, Kill Bill

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• Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

  Walter Scott

  Revenge, Thinking, Flames

  Sir Walter Scott (1857). “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field”, p.269

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• Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Dream, Revenge

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sweet, Revenge, Victim

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

  Angela Elwell Hunt

  Sweet, Revenge, Knights

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