quotations about revenge
Revenge is what we call that sturdy horse, Self-Defense, when it runs amuck. Curb it and train it to stick to the road, and it will carry you far.
GARRET SMITH
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Living Sparks of Life
Revenge is a boomerang.
GARRET SMITH
Living Sparks of Life
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune
The very design of revenge is troublesome, and puts the spirits into an unnatural fermentation and tumult. The man that meditates it is always restless, his very soul is stung, swells and boils, is in pain and anguish, hath no ease, no enjoyment of itself, so long as this passion reigns. The execution of it may perhaps be attended with some present pleasure, but that pleasure is unreasonable and brutish, momentary and short, like a flash of lightning, which vanisheth in the twinkling of an eye.
ISAAC BARROW
sermon XXXIII
Revenge, like some poisonous plant, replete with baneful juices, rankles in the breast, and meditates mischief to its neighbour.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.
MINETTE WALTERS
The Scold's Bridle
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Return of the King
Revenge in fiction can be shocking, but it often embeds a moral message. There is heroic revenge, a staple of the American movie world, in which the determined hero or anti-hero acts against an evil protagonist (the law being ineffective or absent). And there is righteous revenge, as in tales of women who exact bloody retribution on abusing men, a denouement that can bring cheers from an audience. Oppressors and bullies, goes the sentiment, often deserve what they get.
STEPHEN FINEMAN
"Wanting revenge is only natural--here's why", The Conversation, November 2, 2017
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
BIBLE
Romans 12:20
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.
JANE PORTER
attributed, Lifelines
In a distorted, fallen world revenge is normal, its extreme form being capital punishment. Certainly, those who harm others, especially those whose lives are distorted, must be placed where they cannot repeat such acts, but judgment belongs to God alone.
GENE DAVENPORT
"Revenge accomplishes nothing", The Jackson Sun, November 2, 2017
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZE
Nietzsche and Philosophy
Revenge is the law of the outlaws.
LAURA BLUMENFELD
Revenge: A Story of Hope
Hunting high and low to seek revenge
Brand new moral code, got made reluctant renegade
Leaving empty souls when he avenged
Evil spirits flowed he drank the blood like lemonade
MORCHEEBA
"If You Like Lemonade"
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A Defence of Poetry
You know
If somebody, somewhere done you wrong
Oh, don't worry about your revenge, no
I said if somebody, somewhere done you wrong
Oh, don't worry about your revenge, no no
Because that's when evil
Oh, evil slips on in
STEVE MILLER BAND
"Evil"
Revenge is the prime ingredient in the fountain of youth.
CLOCKWERK
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
Revenge is not the purest motivator. Nor is it the most stable. Playing with that kind of raw emotion can leave the mind clouded and body burnt out. But when channeled properly it can make a fine, if ephemeral and highly combustible, fuel.
NICK MOYLE
"Texas uses huge first quarter to exact revenge from Kansas", My San Antonio, November 11, 2017