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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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• Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sweet, Revenge, Fattening

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• To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

  Steig Larsson

  Revenge, Duty, Absolutes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The best revenge is massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Philosophy

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• Living well is the best revenge.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.308

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

  Douglas Horton

  Peace, Fear, Revenge

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• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

  Sacha Guitry

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" edited by Connie Robertson, (p. 83), 1998.

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• We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  Marianne Williamson

  Revenge, Compassion, Mind

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Weed, Nature

  Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

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

  Alexander Pope

  Spiritual, Revenge, Hate

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gratitude, Pain, Revenge

  'The Rambler' no. 87 (15 January 1751)

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• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Revenge

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.48, Verso

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• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Revenge, Mean

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• No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

  Meir Kahane

  Revenge, Justified, Right Time

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• Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Hustle

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Revenge, Hatred

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