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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• To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

  Herman Melville

  Life And Love, Hate, Heart

  Moby Dick ch. 135 (1851)

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

  Ralph McGill

  Inspirational, Revenge, Way

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Revenge, Idols, Age

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1908, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgiveness, Time, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.35, Penguin

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

  Stephen Fry

  Revenge, Animated Series, Kill Bill

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

  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Revenge'

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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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