1,350 Quotes About Revenge

  • Author Stendhal
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    It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

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  • Author Susan Sarandon
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    When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".

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  • Author Sylvester Stallone
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    Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

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  • Author Tilda Swinton
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    Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

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  • Author Wallace Stevens
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    The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

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  • Author Walter Scott
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    'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!

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