Best Revenge Wisdom
1097 Revenge quotes by 738 unique authors
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Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.
— Louis Gustave Vapereau
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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…
— Dalai Lama
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Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.
— Neil Kinnock
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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
— James Madison
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
— Iris Murdoch
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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
— Mark Twain
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Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.
— Janet Morris
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Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
— David Anthony Durham
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I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy…
— Hayden Christensen
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
— Hailee Steinfeld
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I do watch Revenge, American Horror Story and Game of Thrones. I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are…
— Lana Parrilla
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I saw Madeleine Stowe from Revenge recently, and she totally blew me away. And growing up I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one…
— Sarah Shahi
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Dancing well is the best revenge
— Allegra Kent
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Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
— Nick Wechsler
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I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through. My rule is to…
— Sophia Bush
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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…
— John Waters
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Revenge is a dish best served cold
— Ricardo Montalban
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I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to…
— Roger Ebert
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I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they…
— Gardner Dozois
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Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live…
— Unknown Author
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You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a…
— Eddie Vedder
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Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
— Christopher Nolan
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It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be…
— Joe Abercrombie
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Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to…
— Erich Fromm
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