1,350 Quotes About Revenge

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, "I will never do that again."

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.