Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.

Louise Erdrich

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

Suge Knight

The best revenge in the world is success.

Jo Brand

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

Quentin Tarantino

... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

Robert Crumb

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Roald Dahl

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Rob Bell

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

Michel de Montaigne

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Michel de Montaigne

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

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.

Philip Russell

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

Johnny Depp

'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

Milan Kundera

When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.

Jose Mourinho

If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

Jonathan Swift

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Lou Reed

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

Lou Reed

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

Lloyd Alexander

I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.

John Ford

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

John Ford

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

John Ford

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

Jonathan Maberry

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

Jonathan Edwards

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

Henry Spencer

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

Joan Rivers

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

Garry Kasparov

Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

Gabriel Mann

I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

Francois Fillon

France does not practice revenge.

James Taylor

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

James Patterson

That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

Joe Eszterhas

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.