Quotation Explorer - 'Revenge'

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy. - Raheel Farooq
Like life, revenge can be a messy business... And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which reason cannot know. - Emily Thorne
Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice. - Ashly Lorenzana
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. - Stieg Larsson
You're the face in the mirror my favorite sinBut you want revenge from the Lord aboveSo the rain comes down heavy like my love - Chloe Chaidez
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Sir Francis Bacon
The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an elongated time…as long as we stay in the cold frosty air of not letting go. - Wes Adamson
There is no better revenge than a great success. - Debasish Mridha
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. - Susan Sontag
There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy. - Victoria Malin Gregory
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin - Shinobu Ohtaka
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. - Alexander Pope
There are only three possible endings —aren't there? to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that. - Jeanette Winterson
Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you. - Masashi Kishimoto
There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge. - Emilie Autumn
Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past. - Debasish Mridha
There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score. - Ashly Lorenzana
If anyone hurts you, love him; it is the greatest revenge. - Debasish Mridha
Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread. - Elie Wiesel
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.
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it. - Ann Radcliffe
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - John Milton
Karma and Hell are the cowards revenge - Christopher Zzenn Loren
Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoire) - Charles de Leusse
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Living hell is the best revenge. - Adrienne E. Gusoff
The same one who mistreated you will be the one needing you. So, don't hesitate to help. Because that will be the best positive revenge. - Manasa Rao Saarloos
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind, And makes it fearful and degenerate; Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep. - William Shakespeare
Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good. - William George Jordan
Seeking revenge is like reaching out for your own personal turmoil, it's never worth it. Righteousness will always come through Jesus Christ. - Ron Baratono
We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge. - Madonna
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. - Chuck Palahniuk
When you're angry and the fire of revenge is burning your mind, that is the best time to practice calmness, forgiveneess, kindness and love - Debasish Mridha
Sweet is revenge - especially to women. - Lord Byron
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. - Confucius
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban. - Malala Yousafzai
It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma. - Colleen Truscott Fry
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. - Leviticus 19 18 NIV
Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge. - Vinita Kinra
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji - Nobuhiro Watsuki
The best revenge is kind forgiveness. - Debasish Mridha
A man once told me that there are infinite places love will take you, but revenge is the business of hate, and there is only one place hate will take you---the end. The end of you and the end of everything you once stood for. But I welcomed my end. - Tara Brown, A.E Watson
Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content. - Unarine Ramaru
Revenge is like waves hitting the beach, the water is drawn in and sucked back into yet another wave, pounding and smashing its shoreline! - Wes Adamson
Wage of rage of revenge ain't worth it. What's the point of being enslaved by a slave? - Anonymous
Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge. - Debasish Mridha
They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better. - James Franco
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. - Paul Gauguin
I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive. - Karen E. Quinones Miller
I write out of revenge. - William Goldman
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. - Walt Whitman
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. - Sir Francis Bacon
Some ride the bullet to vent, while some shoot the bullet to revenge. - Anthony Liccione
I didn't have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow? - Brandon Sanderson
In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus. - Crystal Mary Lindsey
If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves. - Chinese Proverb
Just like me. Just like so many others. Tragedies may change who we are, may alter the paths we take, sometimes drastically. But we can still continue on, continue living for tomorrow. Tomorrow is always worth fighting for." Mach Derune, A Time for Revenge, The End of Old Ways series - A.W.Chrystalis
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison. - J.B. Priestley
The best revenge is true forgiveness. - Debasish Mridha
Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive."-from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge. - Christopher Paolini
Live well. It is the greatest revenge. - The Talmud
MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. _The Biographical Alphabet_ - Ambrose Bierce
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. - Scott Adams
Living well is the best revenge. - George Herbert
If someone hurts you, to take the revenge, love him. - Debasish Mridha
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. - Terry Pratchett
The best Revenge is to take revenge on yourself, kill the ego in you !..أفضل إنتقام هو أن تنتقم من نفسك، أقتل قرينك - Hicham LM Kamelionaire
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. - Voltaire
Success is the best revenge. - Debasish Mridha
Revenge is a kind of justice. But it is applicable only in wild and lawless places. Says Bhutta - M.K. Bhutta
Democracy is the best revenge. - Benazir Bhutto
wouldn't a loving gather, I reasoned, have more compassion than to seek revenge on His comparatively feeble children who are temporarily blinded by the illusions of time and space? - Mike Dooley
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. - Karl Lagerfeld
These guys are tough, this world is crazy and the wind here is crazy strong! However if I want a normal life for once I have to try harder! Angel - From Revenge of the Gloobas. Coming soon! - Angel Ramon Medina
No form of revenge could have made me hate you any less. If I had cut the two of you to shreds with a knife, I think I would have hated the little pieces of you just the same. - Kanae Minato
Forgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth. - Debasish Mridha
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. - Ambrose Bierce
Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation. - Dennis R. Miller
If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me. - U.S. Marine Corps
Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. - Michel de Montaigne
Make their hate your stepping stones towards achieving something greater. This will be the best revenge you can give by proving to people that they are wrong about you, and that you are better than they could ever imagine. - Auliq Ice
The BEST revenge is to be fabulous. - Angela T. Jones
He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would’ve just broken his heart. - Dominic Riccitello
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - Sacha Guitry
Anger is a revenge that can never be controlled. - Nadair Desmar
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. - Lord Chesterfield
Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong. - Shannon L. Alder
No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong. - Zayn Malik
It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different. - Oscar Arias
Let the haters’ hate push you to go further instead of tear you down, your accomplishments will be your best revenge. - Auliq Ice
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - Edward Chapin
Hate is self-inflicted torture. It hungers for revenge, damage, division, and violence, but is never satiated. Hate is a psychological hell to which we condemn ourselves and endeavor to burn others. - Steve Maraboli
Justice lay on the edge o his blessed sword, but revenge - sweet as candy - filled his senses." The Bow of Destiny - P. H. Solomon, The Bow of Destiny
Being success is not an easy thing. It need courage, fight, brave, and time. Let them judge. Just show them the result later. Because a wise man said that success is the biggest revenge. - Sheilanda Khoirunnisa
It's not wise to seek the revenge and forget to love. - Debasish Mridha
The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith. - Anaïs Nin
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
Justice is about harmony... revenge is about you making yourself feel better. - Compton Gage
Revenge is a dish best served published! - Lisa Kovanda
The best revenge is the time. Time takes it's revenge all the time. - Arzum Uzun
Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever. - Gary Hopkins
Don’t fear! Take care of revenge and hatred by hitting the haters with love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life - blanco vandam
I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge. - Paul Kearney
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge. - Chuck Palahniuk
You polluted my air. I will pollute your. Just Wait... Revenge is not the solution - Talees Rizvi
First wrong by brow-beater abuses the body of law. And the revenge of brow-beaten announces that there is no law in state. Says Bhutta - M.K. Bhutta
Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge. - Debasish Mridha
You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge. - Compton Gage
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. - George Orwell
When you focus on revenge, you're uploading only negativity to your system. You should focus on moving forward and enjoy the little things in life. For we know, that innocent smile of yours is a big obstacle in the eyes of the haters. - Fasela Oosterwolde
Revenge is sweet and not fattening. - Alfred Hitchcock
He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel. - Brenda Perlin
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. - Robert Jordan
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