Quotes
Quotes about Revenge
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear.
Like to the Pontic sea,
Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
Till that a capable and wide revenge
Swallow them up.
Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
Had stomach for them all.
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th' unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew,
Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."
Supper is a word of strange finality. Perhaps that derives from the scriptures. Revenge is a good supper but a bad breakfast, they say.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
The Vine and the Goat A vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary himself by the political authorities of his day, nevertheless Jesus did not advocate a new political regime to be established by force through revolutionary action. He called for the love of our enemies, not their destruction; ... for readiness to suffer instead of using force; for forgiveness instead of hate and revenge. One might even say [that] Jesus was more revolutionary than the revolutionaries, or revolutionary in a very different way. The revolution he had in mind was a radical change of heart on the part of mankind, involving conversion away from selfishness and toward the willing service of God and of people in general.
The noblest revenge is to forgive.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
