Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Frasor

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

Benjamin Franklin

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

Benjamin Franklin

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

Benjamin Franklin

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Bella Abzug

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

Baltasar Gracian

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Baltasar Gracian

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.

Baltasar Gracian

Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Connie Willis

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.

Ashley Madekwe

On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.

Charles Bukowski

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.

Bruce Springsteen

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.

Brian Jeroloman

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.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

Juvenal

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

Juvenal

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

Denzel Washington

Revenge is a meal best served cold.

Diana Gabaldon

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.

Dennis Miller

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.

William Shakespeare

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

William Shakespeare

Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Charles Caleb Colton

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Dick Armey

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.