Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Glover

Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

Coolio

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

Daniel Craig

Revenge doesn't stop.

Anais Nin

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

Anne Frank

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

Ann Aguirre

Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

Chuck Palahniuk

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

Christopher Paolini

Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64

Christopher Paolini

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

Amy Adams

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Anne Rice

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

Anne Rice

What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, "I will never do that again."

Andrea Arnold

I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.

Ambrose Bierce

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

Ambrose Bierce

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

Anthony Hopkins

I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.

Alice Cooper

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

Aeschylus

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

Dalai Lama

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

Dolly Parton

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

Dolly Parton

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

Dolly Parton

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

Desmond Tutu

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Desmond Tutu

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Desmond Tutu

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!

Cynthia Ozick

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

Cyril Connolly

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Dar Williams

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.