1,350 Quotes About Revenge

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

I was winning with seven seconds left. I wanted to get my revenge on him.

I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge.

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'