Quotes about revenge

You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.

— Dick Armey

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

— Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Charlotte Bronte

Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.

— Les Brown

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

— Confucius

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

— Pierre Corneille

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

— Sacha Guitry

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

— Lou Holtz

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

— Doug Horton

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

— John Jefferson

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

— Samuel Johnson

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

Don't get mad, get even.

— Robert F. Kennedy

That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

— Ralph McGill

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

— John Milton

Surviving well is your finest revenge.

— Morgan Nito

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

— Austin O'Malley

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

— Jane Porter

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

— German Proverb

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

— Seneca

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

— William Shakespeare

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The best revenge is massive success.

— Frank Sinatra

No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.

— Mary Stuart

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

— Source Unknown

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

— Walter Weckler

Success is the sweetest revenge.

— Vanessa Williams

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

— Ralph Steadman

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

— Scott Adams

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (III.i.49�61) The Merchant of Venice

— William Shakespeare