Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Cohen

No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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.

Julie Garwood

He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.

JR

Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!

Josh Billings

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

Julius Caesar

Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this...that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over.

Otto Weininger

Everything evil is revenge.

Kanye West

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

Kanye West

Success is the best revenge.

Paul Theroux

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

Paolo Maldini

It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

Missy Elliot

I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So it's crazy.

Marya Mannes

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Joseph Stanislaw

Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

Nelly

I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '

Niccolo Machiavelli

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

Joe Royle

That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

Joe Browne

Getting even throws everything out of balance.

Joe Dubuque

I know he's going to be fired up. He's going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He's probably been looking forward to this match since last March.

Jodi Picoult

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Jodi Picoult

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Mary Baker Eddy

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

Marquis de Sade

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Mario Vargas Llosa

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.

Mario Puzo

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

Niels Arden Oplev

Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

Niels Arden Oplev

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. When you wish for revenge, and you think youve gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.