Best Revenge Quotes - Page 4

• To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life And Love, Revenge, Hatred

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• The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

  Brennan Manning

  Revenge, Two, Arrogance

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• Forgiveness is the best revenge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Revenge, Buddhism

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• The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

  Henry Rollins

  Revenge, Retribution

  Song: Alien Blueprint

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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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• The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Sex, Revenge, Eye

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.707, Macmillan

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• I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  Mother, Revenge, Democracy

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• Democracy is the best revenge.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Revenge, Freedom, Democracy

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• They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

  James Franco

  Revenge, Writing, Sometimes

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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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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Break Up, Revenge, Men

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45

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• Writing well is the best revenge.

  Dorothy Parker

  Revenge, Writing, Wells

  "Fictional character: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene". "Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sweet, Revenge, Fattening

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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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• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  Marianne Williamson

  Revenge, Kindness, Compassion

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• 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

  Revenge, Venice, Laughing

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Philosophy

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• The best revenge is to improve yourself.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Revenge, Improving Yourself

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