Exacting Revenge Quotes

• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

  Scott Adams

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Inspire

  "Fictional character: David Rossi". "Criminal Minds". Season 7, Episode 2: "Proof", September 28, 2011.

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Revenge, Hatred

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• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Revenge, Imitation, Refrain

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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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• My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

  Margaret Cho

  Revenge, Children, Bully

  "It Gets Better: How I Overcame Childhood Bullying" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Dog, Revenge, Anger

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• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  Ralph Steadman

  Revenge, Hate, Men

  "Fictional character: David Rossi". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 2: "The Pact", October 10, 2012.

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• Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

  Ivana Trump

  Beauty, Revenge, Hair

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• Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

  Carrie Underwood

  Revenge, Mean, Guy

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• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  Uwe Boll

  Revenge, Stories, Alive

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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 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

  Revenge, Passion, Thinking

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.150, MIT Press

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• Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

  J. B. Priestley

  Revenge, Rivers, Yellow

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• Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

  Steven Pinker

  Revenge, War, Water

  "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. 10 November, 2011.

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• Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Revenge, Offence

  "Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity" by Daniel Kalder, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

  John Boyd Orr

  Revenge, War, Lust

  "Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.

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• The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

  Colin Mochrie

  Revenge, People, Said

  "10 Questions: Colin Mochrie". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 9, 2003.

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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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• I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

  Steven Moffat

  Revenge, Kids, Thinking

  "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Revenge, Anger, Concealed

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• My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Brother, Revenge, Father

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• Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Revenge, Consciousness, Habit

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• Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.

  Emily VanCamp

  Revenge, Thinking, Ideas

  "Emily Van Camp Talks Revenge Season 2, Jennifer Jason Leigh Joining the Cast as Her Mother, and More". Press Tour Interview, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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