Revenge
Quotes - Nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge
“They
say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin
requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened
wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human emotions.”
―
Emily Thorne
“There
were many, many debts to be paid before she left Rifthold and took back her
throne. Starting now. Fortunate that she was in a killing sort of mood.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
“In
the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the
approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every
victory, there will also be defeat.”
―
Emily Thorne
“Success
is the best revenge.”
―
Kanye West
“Thou
calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
But
since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“The
only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest
man.”
―
Diogenes
“To
punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own
actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a
wretched and cowardly sin.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every
Day of the Year
“What
I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”
―
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
“We
are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to
hate someone just because they hate us.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“...it
is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.”
―
Sherrilyn Kenyon, The Dream-Hunter
“I
was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and
planning murder”
―
Mingmei Yip, Peach Blossom Pavilion
“Revenge
is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret.”
―
Michael J. Sullivan, Heir of Novron
“It’s
no secret I want him to pay. I don’t particularly care how. I’d prefer in
blood—but I’ll settle for sweat and tears.”
―
Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge
“Someone
once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame
said.
“Winston
Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British
Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.”
―
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“I
could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.”
―
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“Revenge
may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the
dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the
raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so.
There’ll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or
none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of
revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It’s
a reversion to constant, visceral fear.”
―
Ian McEwan, Nutshell
“Before
you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge
unstitches civilisation.”
―
Ian McEwan, Nutshell
“They
have him,' Marina hisses, pointing into the dark. 'They have his body and I'm
not letting them keep it.”
―
Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven
“Revenge
is an infection of the spirit.”
―
Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin
“I
write about revenge because it presupposes love, honor, justice: things that
matter.”
―
J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye Trilogy: Boxset 1-3
“If
karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.”
―
Anthony Liccione
“Nothing
inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”
―
scott adams
“Revenge
is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.”
―
Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior
“Vengeance,
retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers—vile, beguiling demons
promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in
truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
“There
are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear...
revenge.”
―
Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“Once
bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?”
―
A.A. Bell , Hindsight
“His
jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh
it.”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry V
“He
had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with
Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with
peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree
won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!”
―
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Height
