Revenge Quotes - Page 30

• Revenge is a dish best served . . . At every meal.

  Grumpy Cat

  Meals, Dishes

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• In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

  Ami Ayalon

  Pain, Moments

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• Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

  Sivananda

  Children, Giving Up, Heart

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• A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Sight, Bent

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Comstock Lode”, p.23, Bantam

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• A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Hands, Forgiving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Punctual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Sympathy, Hate, Yield

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• The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

  Brennan Manning

  Two, Arrogance, Spirituality

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• For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Love You, Hatred, Classic

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, Forgiving, Resentment

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• No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, Murder, Bounds

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 127

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• Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

  Samuel Johnson

  Coward, Defense, Slander

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.126

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• Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

  John Dryden

  Night, Mind, Hell

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• It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

  Juvenal

  Mind, Littles, Weak

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• Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
  Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Spite, Critics

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.409

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• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Jesus, Hate

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

  Thucydides

  Adversity, Men, Law

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.

  Thucydides

  Men, Law, Giving

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• Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

  Saddam Hussein

  Son, Holy Places, Rebel

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• I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

  Thom Yorke

  School, Kids, Boys

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• God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Mean, Bully

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• The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

  Alfred Bester

  Dream, Frustration, Reality

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I am here to speak for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Suicide, Blood, Mixing

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• To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Camouflage, Instinct

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