Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Price

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

William Congreve

She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.

William Goldman

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

William Goldman

I write out of revenge.

William Allingham

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

Voltaire

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

William Ralph Inge

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

Walter Scott

'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!

Walter Scott

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

Walter Scott

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

Walter Hill

There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

Winston Churchill

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Winston Churchill

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

William Wycherley

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

William Shenstone

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

William Gallas

It will be harder because they are going to want revenge, they need revenge.

Wislawa Szymborska

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wes Craven

I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot.

Yukio Mishima

I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.

Zayn Malik

No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.

William Hazlitt

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.