Quotes About Revenge

“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

“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

“Revenge proves its own executioner.”
― John Ford, The Broken Heart

“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“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,
heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd 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, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.”
― William Shakespeare

“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

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
― Anne Lamott

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“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

“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
― Heinrich Heine

“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

“I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.”
― Darren Shan, A Living Nightmare

“I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Greatest My Own Story

“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!”
― Hayley Williams

“I want to be able to see stuff," Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt.”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.”
― Gina Barreca

“By proof we feel
Our power sufficient to disturb his Heav'n,
And with perpetual inrodes to alarm,
Though inaccessible, his fatal Throne:
Which if not Victory is yet Revenge.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.”
― Mark Twain

“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

“But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”
― Robert Jordan

“She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..."
(Rapunzel glares)
"Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.”
― Shannon Hale