Revenge Quotes - Page 10

• How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Pain, Enemy, Hunger

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• I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, People, Division

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• I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.

  James Cromwell

  Nerd, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2012.

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• Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

  Michel Gondry

  Wall, Mean, Frustration

  "Surreal To Reel" By Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

  Dolly Parton

  Rocks, Want, Retribution

  Song: I Don't Want to Throw Rice, Album: Hello, I'm Dolly

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• I wanna piss on his head, I want his family dead.

  Tupac Shakur

  Want, Retribution

  Song: Death Around The Corner

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• I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.

  Frank Zappa

  Eye, Yellow, Snow

  Song: Nanook Rubs It

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• Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

  Joan Rivers

  Survival, Matter, Remember

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hate, Thinking, Enemy

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• Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Numbers, Doe, Add

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.233, Faber & Faber

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• In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Hate, Heart, Burning

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• To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilt, Degrees, Audacity

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Foresight, Seeking, Seeking Revenge

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub

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• Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Justice, Kind

  Elizabeth Bowen (2006). “The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen”, Anchor

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• Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Reality, Fiction, Literature

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.34, HarperCollins

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• Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind;
  The foul cubs like their parents are.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Parent, Kind, Cubs

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.180

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• Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

  Francis Quarles

  Blood, Sweat, Excess

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.15

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• With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

  Francis Quarles

  Vow, Flux, Bloody

  Francis Quarles (1861). “Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers”, p.35

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• An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

  Socrates

  Daughter, Pride, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

  Hannah More

  Enemy, Looks, Thunder

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical piety, or, The influence of religion of the heart on the conduct of the life”, p.199

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• A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Virtue, Injury, Resent

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.513

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• Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.

  Philip Massinger

  Hurt, Soul, Thirsty

  Philip Massinger (1817). “Beauties of Massinger”, p.262

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• Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

  Carrie Fisher

  Forgiveness, May, Consciousness

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• Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
  And silent, settles into full revenge.

  John Tillotson

  Anger, Storm, Silent

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• In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Forgiveness, Enemy, Passing

  Mrs.charlotte lennox. (1762). “Sophia”, p.139

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