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• Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

  Bill Vaughan

  Taken, People, Sorcery

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• Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

  George Herbert

  Pardon, Slander

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

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• Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

  Lucy Freeman

  Suicide, Hurt, Risk

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• The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine gave them security, wealth, honours, and revenge; and the support of the orthodox faith was considered as the most sacred and important duty of the civil magistrate. The edict of Milan, the great charter of toleration, had confirmed to each individual of the Roman world the privilege of choosing and professing his own religion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Grateful, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (2013). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

  Henry Spencer

  Lying, Programming, Software Engineering

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• Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though!

  Christa B. Allen

  Princess, Play, Training

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

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• And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by saying, "A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse." I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Running, Heart

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, War, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.19

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• The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ambition, Men, Safety

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.488

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• Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

  Michelle Shocked

  Pain, Two, Vengeance

  Song: Quality Of Mercy

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• We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.

  Biz Markie

  Basketball, Balls, Retribution

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• In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Years, Cities

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.338, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ordinary, World, Madness

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• I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Mother, Father, Yankees

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• The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Black, Panthers

  "A Closer Look at the New Black Panther Party". 6abc.com. November 09, 2010.

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• [O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

  John Berger

  Art, Past, Judging

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.9, Vintage

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• Everything evil is revenge.

  Otto Weininger

  Evil

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• If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Hate, Betray

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• Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

  John Armstrong

  Sex, Mean, Eye

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, People, Support

  George W. Bush at the third Presidential Debate, abcnews.go.com. October 17, 2000.

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• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works: The study of sociology”

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• The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Dark

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• Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

  Robert Greene

  Unjust, May, Danger

  Robert Greene, La Serre (Jean-Puget, M. de) (1588). “Greene's "Pandosto" or "Dorastus and Fawnia": being the original of Shakespeare's "Winter's tale"”, p.9

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• If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

  David Hume

  Weed, Art, Men

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.166

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• I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.

  Yukio Mishima

  Stupid, Fate, Long

  "Confessions of a Mask". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1949.

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