Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Setterfield

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

David Sedaris

The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.

David Prowse

I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

Bryan Brown

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

Bryan Singer

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

Cesare Pavese

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

Cesare Pavese

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

C. L. R. James

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

China Mieville

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

Charles Frazier

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

Madeleine Albright

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

William Shakespeare

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

William Shakespeare

No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

William Shakespeare

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

William Shakespeare

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

William Shakespeare

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

William Shakespeare

You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.

Bob Thomason

I don't know about them, but I sure am. I'm out for revenge.

William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Bertrand Russell

While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

Carl Douglas

Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

Agnes Obel

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Agnes Repplier

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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.

J. B. Priestley

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

J. B. Priestley

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

Isaac Newton

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

Hannah More

we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

Graham Arnold

The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge

Gregg Easterbrook

How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?

Neil Kinnock

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

John Newton

Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.

John Waters

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.