Revenge Quotes - Page 14

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

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.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.