Revenge Quotes

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

  Confucius

  Karma, Philosophy, Journey

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Hatred, Injury

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• In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Women, Beyond Good And Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.79, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The best revenge is massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best revenge is to improve yourself.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Best Revenge, Improving Yourself

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• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Eye, Blind

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

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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

  Venice, Laughing, Poison

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

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• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

  Josh Billings

  Forgiveness, Vengeance, No Revenge

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• 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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• It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

  Oscar Arias

  Confused, Two, Justice

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• Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

  Hiawatha

  Love, Peace, Native American

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• No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

  Sulla

  Thankful, Enemy, No Friends

  Epitaph he made for himself. "Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age". Book by Will Durant, 2001.

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• Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

  David Anthony Durham

  Emotion, Manipulate

  David Anthony Durham (2010). “Acacia”, p.72, Random House

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• Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Men, Lasts, Ghost

  "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". Video Game, www.imdb.com. November 10, 2009.

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• Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Waiting, Books And Movies, Cold

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• Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sweet, Fattening, Best Revenge

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• Don't get mad, get even.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspiring, Mad, Murphys Law

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• Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Blood, Hands

  1592 Aaron toTamora.Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3, l.38-9.

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• Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Life, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Justice, Police Officer

  Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617

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• Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Rights, Race

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.72

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• You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

  Dick Armey

  Success, Wisdom, Get Ahead

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• If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Needs, Done

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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, Anger, Men

  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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• 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

  Kindness, Compassion, Empowering

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