Revenge Quotations | Page 2

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

We are a different team now than we were then (Dec. 10). We're playing different guys. I think we're better than we were then. I don't want to call it a revenge game, but there might be some payback (tonight), hopefully. But they're a good team and they're very tough defensively.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

We know every team's out to get us. We have a target on our chest. Every team is trying to get revenge on us. We know that, now that we're in league, everybody's bringing their A game.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

It appears to be a case of revenge run amok.

The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.

We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.

I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

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

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.

I don't know about them, but I sure am. I'm out for revenge.

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable.

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.

The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine gave them security, wealth, honours, and revenge; and the support of the orthodox faith was considered as the most sacred and important duty of the civil magistrate. The edict of Milan, the great charter of toleration, had confirmed to each individual of the Roman world the privilege of choosing and professing his own religion.

But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.

The best revenge is democracy.

Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.

Democracy is the best revenge.

Revenge is a meal best served cold.

You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.

When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

In reality, all those guys are gone, so you can't say it's revenge. It's a completely new team.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.

I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

They are a very tough opponent, and they took us the first game. So we want our revenge, and we are going to go right back after them hard. We are really looking forward to getting after them.

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

There are murder victims' family members who go through this process thinking they'll feel peace once the revenge of the death penalty is carried out. What I've learned from meeting with these people is that you don't feel better in revenge. You feel better in forgiveness.

We're a pretty focused team and know we can't look past anyone. We know (Mid-Prairie) is going to want some revenge on us.

I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts. Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with feeling. When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. You’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice ...

I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

Most people who call and report stuff are older, ... Even when younger people turn themselves in, it's an older person who convinced them to do so. There's so much violence in youth culture, so much fear ? 'What if I get shot, if they find out?' Revenge is rare, but you see it more with the new breed of young thug-life characters. There's a whole genre of rap that promotes it. I'm not blaming the recording and entertainment industry, but it's that culture ? I'm hard, callous, I don't care .

Obviously, there is a revenge factor. (Indiana is) obviously our natural rival.

Revenge is sweet. There's no way to describe it -- it's awesome.

Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself - so say fools

Revenge is sweetest when all goes according to plan but to others it's just a mere coincidence.

Revenge is a dish that can be eaten cold.

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Revenge alone is not the answer. There has to be a complete eradication, an elimination of all the training camps.

I wish I could play somewhere in the division. I just want to play against the Packers. You have that revenge type thing.

I didn't get the opportunity to play in that game and I really wanted to play that game bad. From my standpoint, I want a lot of revenge against them and I know our team does, too.

I am behind Australia's best opening partnership of all time, so I have to bide my time for opportunities to come up. It would be a dream come true to play a revenge Ashes series this summer.

I am sure Auburn has revenge on their mind to say the least. They are a very good baseball team. We did a good job against them last year. We both have different ball clubs this year so it should be a good series.

Bullitt Central is definitely a better football team. They play with emotion and that showed on film. We know they are loaded with seniors. I feel like the revenge factor will be big for them.

I can think of nothing but savoring the bittersweet taste of revenge as justice is served upon this social sewage here before us today.

For what?' they asked us, ... 'If we go there, we'll be deported,' they said. 'If we go, we'll face revenge from the gangs in the neighborhood.' A lot of people are afraid to come forward.

I got a little revenge with the win. He got me for third place at Midlands, but I got him today. I just wish I could have gotten the major decision so we could have won the dual as a team.

To forget a wrong is the best revenge

Having to bottle up my revenge feelings as a brother is not going to be an easy thing to do. I'm also worried about my mother.