Best Revenge Quotes

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Revenge, Hatred

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• The best revenge is massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  Eddie Vedder

  Inspirational, Life, Revenge

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from May 17, 2014

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• Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

  Ivana Trump

  Beauty, Revenge, Hair

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• The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Revenge, Enemy

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (6), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Don't get mad, get even.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspiring, Revenge, Mad

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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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• The best revenge in the world is success.

  Suge Knight

  Revenge, World

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• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Revenge, Eye

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Revenge, Despair, Delight

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• It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Suffering, Pay

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• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Time

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Revenge, Forgiving, Noble

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.211, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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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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• While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

  Douglas Horton

  Peace, Fear, Revenge

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

  Stephen Fry

  Revenge, Animated Series, Kill Bill

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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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• A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Revenge'

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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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• Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Revenge, Hate, Hatred

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1477, e-artnow

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• The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Life, Pain, Believe

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.366, Random House

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• She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

  Ralph McGill

  Inspirational, Revenge, Way

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• I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

  Moliere

  Revenge

  "The Doctor in Spite of Himself". Play by Molière, III, 9, 1667.

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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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