Revenge
Quotes - An eye for an eye
“An
eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I
don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my
mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want
to kill them."
"Unfortunately,"
said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either
tea or nothing.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“The
best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I
will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come
when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to
ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“If
you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they
did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your
mind.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“Harry
was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get
revenge.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“My
name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
―
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“I
want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Revenge,
the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
―
Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian
“Grudges
are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is
for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
―
Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
“Anger,
resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes
yours.”
―
Shannon Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
“The
best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I
am a Jew. Hath
not
a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions,
senses, affections, passions? fed with
the
same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to
the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed
and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a
Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if
you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us,
do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge?
If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble
you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what
is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong
a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian
example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach
me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will
better the instruction.”
―
William Shakespeare
“Karma
comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over
your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around.
That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge
that you deserve.”
―
Jessica Brody, The Karma Club
“Often
those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“We
should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
―
Heinrich Heine
“Revenge
proves its own executioner.”
―
John Ford, Broken Heart
“Not
forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
―
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“Stronger
than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
―
Euripides, Medea
“When
someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
―
Mary Higgins Clark
“Until
a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right
circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to
a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my
family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge.
If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out
street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
―
Neal Stephenson
“People
should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get
their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you
need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their
vengeance.”
―
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Tell
me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”
―
Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
